panther was used as a code name for mac os x 10.3.
panther was used as a code name for mac os x 10.3.
what animal was used as a code name for mac os x 10.3?
panther
with the exception of mac os x server 1.0 and the original public beta, os x versions were named after big cats until os x 10.9 mavericks, when apple switched to using california locations. prior to its release, mac os x 10.0 was code named "cheetah" internally at apple, and mac os x 10.1 was code named internally as "puma". after the immense buzz surrounding mac os x 10.2, codenamed "jaguar", apple's product marketing began openly using the code names to promote the operating system. mac os x 10.3 was marketed as "panther", mac os x 10.4 as "tiger", mac os x 10.5 as "leopard", mac os x 10.6 as "snow leopard", mac os x 10.7 as "lion", os x 10.8 as "mountain lion", and os x 10.9 as "mavericks".
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mac os x 10.4 tiger was succeeded by mac os x 10.5 leopard on october 26, 2007, after 30 months, making mac os 10.4 tiger the longest running version of mac os x. the last security update released for mac os x 10.4 tiger users was the 2009-005 update. the next security update, 2009-006 only included support for mac os x 10.5 leopard and mac os x 10.6 snow leopard. the latest supported version of quicktime is 7.6.4. the latest version of itunes that can run on mac os x 10.4 tiger is 9.2.1, because 10.0 only supports mac os x 10.5 leopard and later. safari 4.1.3 is the final version for mac os x 10.4 tiger as of november 18, 2010. despite not having received security updates since then, mac os x 10.4 tiger remains popular with power mac users and retrocomputing enthusiasts due to its wide software and hardware compatibility, as it is the last mac os x version to support the classic environment, a mac os 9 compatibility layer, and powerpc g3 processors.
mac os x tiger