[Macpartners] Fwd: New Unix features in Panther Webcast...

Joshua S. Weisbuch jsw at pobox.com
Mon Aug 18 18:16:58 EDT 2003


Ginny, is this for public consumption?  Can I send it to my BMAC list?

thanx

josh

At 15:09 -0400 8/18/03, Ginny Williams wrote:
>Hello!
>
>An invitation from Eric Zelman of Apple.
>
>ginny
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>Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:47:21 -0400
>Subject: New Unix features in Panther Webcast...
>Cc: Jay McSweeney <jaym at apple.com>, Beth Marshdoyle <marshdoyle at apple.com>
>To: abcd-mac at abcd.harvard.edu, MIT OS X Help <macosx-help at mit.edu>
>From: Eric Zelman <zelman at apple.com>
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>Folks-
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>This session provides a sneak-peek at several of the exciting 
>UNIX-related features planned for Panther, the new version of Mac OS 
>X (v10.3) due later this year. The first section will focus on X11 
>for Mac OS X v1.0, which will be bundled with Panther. Apple's 
>implementation of the X11 windowing system, based on XFree86 4.3, 
>features fast OpenGL graphics and an Aqua-compatible "quartz-wm" 
>Window Manager. The 1.0 version for Panther adds full-screen support 
>and Finder integration, allowing you to launch X11.app by 
>double-clicking on an X11 binary.
>
>The second section will focus on other UNIX-related improvements in 
>Panther, including:
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>Greatly improved NFS performance and reliability
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>Single sign-on using Kerberos
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>Quartz for UNIX - command-line and script access to rich graphics tools
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>UNIX upgrades (BSD updates, UNIX/Linux APIs, and much more)
>
>http://www.macosxlabs.org/webcasts/webcasts_next.html
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>Eric Zelman
>Systems Engineer
>Apple
>68 Mt. Hope Ave.
>Providence, RI 02906
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>zelman at apple.com
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