*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

[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.