*sigh*

[tla]

Note to self and others: Don't use "archive and install, preserve users & network settings" when downgrading from Panther dev preview to Jaguar. It makes it so that network doesn't get set up at all, and users get dropped to console when they try to log in. And apparently I am too clueless to set up a working network connection with ifconfig and route. (It may have worked if I had not accidentally specified en0 at first, but then I couldn't undo that mistake.)

Comments

[laurion]

Oooh... pretty shiny developer preview... *drool*

[trysha.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip.

I was thinking of downgrading last night until i read your post.

[justinjs.livejournal.com]

Curiosity from someone who hasn't touched Panther at all yet:

What were the big differences, good and bad?

What made you decide to downgrade?

I tend not to switch to such things very early, myself. I like to learn from the suffering of others.

[tla]

What were the big differences, good and bad?
Good: Expose. The user-switching feature. A much better X11.

Bad: I am not so fond of the new Finder look; it's still (obviously) kind of buggy, and there is stuff (like the Ogg QT component) that doesn't work with it yet.

What made you decide to downgrade?
My curiosity was satisfied, and I didn't feel like dealing with bugs for the foreseeable future.

I tend not to switch to such things very early, myself. I like to learn from the suffering of others.

Well, there you go. I installed Panther because I'd irretrievably messed up my perl install, and had to reinstall anyway, and was in a throw-caution-to-the-wind sort of mood.

[justinjs.livejournal.com]

Good: Expose. The user-switching feature. A much better X11.

I think I can wait, then. I don't need Expose, I am the only user on my tibook, and I make only limited use of X11.

What were the visible improvements in X11?

I installed Panther because I'd irretrievably messed up my perl install, and had to reinstall anyway, and was in a throw-caution-to-the-wind sort of mood.

Ah. That is the kind of situation where I tend to be an early adopter too... when everything is already so broken that I might as well try.

Thanks for the info.

[tla]

I will point out that I didn't care much about Expose until I used it once or twice. It grew on me pretty fast.

X11 now has cmd-N for new terminal windows, and cmd-[number] for switching between them. These were major reasons I had been sticking to Terminal.app.

Oh, and I almost forgot -- Mail.app has threading support now. I'm not sure how much I like it though.