Okay, it’s installed, it’s running. and I’m thinking that there’s some work left to do.

First, I did the “Archive” install. I wanted to save as many settings as I could. I tested out this install on one of my edit machines.

On the edit suite, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to replicate the drive (as not to fuck with my original system). Then, when booting up on the cloned drive, did the install. FCP, AE, the Macromedia suite all performed well. In fact, they never even seemed to know there was anything different…and why should they.

After that initial test. I decided that I would install Panther (developer edition) on my TiBook (1ghz with 1gb of RAM).

The first thing I noticed was that my settings were all there (yeah!) and Panther accepted all the little shareware/freeware programs I use all the time (launchbar, watson,etc.).

In Safari, as in Mail.app, it asked if I wanted to change my keychain to Panther’s version. In doing so, it informed me that I could not go back (read: not backward compatible). With only a possibility of, basically, Yes or No, I forged ahead.

Safari was fine. Mail has been improved (but for some reason doesn’t always see an entire URL written in a message). The new finder rocks. Expose is really cool.

Now, it’s time to start messing with folder actions and applscripting.

More later…