Kernel panic!

UPDATE: three now, as it kernel panicked on startup this morning for no apparent reason :(. Macs never crash eh?

I have had my PowerMac G5 dual processor 2.0GHz 512MB DDR Low-density SDRAM for about a year now, and have had two real and serious kernel panics. One of them was before I updated to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and one of them was, sadly, after. The first time my sister was fiddling with the power button (i.e. making it go thru loads of sleep/wake cycles very quickly) and I read that that can make certain machines Kernel Panic. That was when I was running Mac OS X 10.4.10 Tiger. The second time was when I put it under tremendous load (remember I only have 512 MB RAM), i.e. opening these apps and probably lots of others: Google Earth; Macromedia Flash Pro 8; 6 TextEdit windows; Safari; Apple Mail; iTunes; Adobe Photoshop CS; 76 xterms all running another xterm (i.e. in a long chain of xterms); 2 normal terminal windows (one running top); Google Sketchup; Google Sketchup Pro and countless other RAM hogging apps. That was when I was running Mac OS X 10.5.1 Leopard. I was in expose when it crashed.

Leopard review ... finally!

Ok I've finally gathered together some pretty cool screenshots of Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. First, here is the default desktop that came up just after I'd installed leopard:















Everyone knows that macs are easy and intuitive, right? Well you should see help in leopard. I'm not joking, anyone could use it!















Coverflow in finder looks cool... (and the BSoD PC icons are funny!)

Quick Look is an absolute lifesaver.

Genie might not be a new leopard thing, but it's cool anyway! (here you can see that I've set the new Arabesque screensaver as my desktop background, and I'm installing developer tools 3.0 from the install DVD.)

Stacks are just eyecandy (although cooler than cool):

And last, but certainly not least, Spaces. NOTE: Spaces is very similar to compiz fusion, and it is not an original idea. But as far as i can tell, it's the first time anything like it has come to the mac.

Overall I think leopard is an excellent upgrade. I think you definitely get your moneys worth, especially for it being only £85/$129. Here are just a few of the new features that I can think of off the top of my head:

Completely redesigned finder (including coverflow and quicklook)
Mail.app stationary
Spaces
Dashcode, and all other developer tools ('Xcode 3.0') free
Web clips
Tabbed terminal interface
Time Machine
Front Row (works with PPC macs now :D)
Stacks
iChat
Built in VNC in iChat and Finder
New screensavers 'Arabesque' and 'Shell', and new voice 'Alex'.
Eyecandy, and lots of it!
Loads of redesigned menus and things, e.g the translucent menu bar and the 3D dock.

h4x1nt0sh

leopard ... hackintosh ...

Leopard *growl*

Me and fela just installed Leopard - it's AMAZING. Seriously, I think it's the best OS that has come out of apple so far.

Screenshots and review soon.

Leopard tommorow...

Me (rot13srynznfyra) and Mal are sharing the £85 price tag for the new version of Mac OS X, 10.5 Leopard. I'm gonna go and get it from the apple store tomorrow. Anyway, I'll/we'll give you a proper review when it comes. I am ready for teh bugz life! No seriously, I'm gonna be careful cos I heard that there was a bug where if you try and move (note that I say move and not copy) file(s) over to/from an external drive, and while the data's still moving over the drive accidentally gets unplugged, the Finder thinks that it's copied it all over, and deletes the original file (that's cos you said move and not copy), so you lose part of your data, or all of it if it's one file. Be careful about that one! Hope they fix it soon.

Liger

Many people want Leopard, apple's latest and greatest version of OS X, but many people also don't want to cough up the $129/£85 for it. If you are one of those people, and currently use Tiger (10.4) then check out this excellent customization pack. (URL http://spiderlama.deviantart.com/art/Liger-57706188) I reckon It's about as far as you'll get your tiger installation to look like leopard. Many thanks to the person who made this!

Leopard and mac4lin

I have a leopard account on my linux system...

Leopard look-alike

I've got the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard look on my gnome desktop pretty good now, as you can see. The main drawback is that I don't have a good enough graphics card for compiz, and consequently can't use Avant Window Navigator to emulate a dock.