10.4.3 Mac OS update...
I updated my B&W G3 to the latest OS version, 10.4.3, today. So far, things are running quite smoothly. In fact, Quartz Extreme-wise things are a bit smoother than they were. Ever since I updated to 10.4, Expose has been 'choppy'. Not as bad as no-Quartz-Extreme-choppy, but choppier than it was under 10.3.9.
Sadly, all was not as good. The new 'live verification' feature of Disk Utility (allows the verfication of the boot volume while running off of it) froze up my computer. It didn't panic or anything but it pretty much froze. I haven't tried again as of yet. I might later on. Of course, that's far from actually being able to repair it while running OS X off of the drive. Having to boot from the install disk is a bother I don't usually bother with. Of course, there aren't any errors found when I do actually bother to. So, no loss there.
News from the interweb says that the x86 variant of OS X in now inline with the PowerPC version.
yeah, but where is it??? i've got a big computer just waiting to run it.
huzzah!!!
like the new look, too, although I have no idea why Firefox renders shit so slowly.... might be one of those 50 or so questionable third-party extensions i've got running! ha HA!
It should be out when the first Mactels come out. It might not be so easy to get it onto a non-mac though. Apple is starting to make it a bit harder, from what I've heard.