Future x11, 10.6 & PPCs
Future x11, 10.6 & PPCs
- Subject: Future x11, 10.6 & PPCs
- From: Jörg Mertins <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:41:38 +0200
On 17.09.2008, at 20:36, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Paul Schinder wrote:
Sorry. All I can really say is that this has been an educating
experience for all of us and will allow us to avoid these
mistakes the
next time around (meaning 10.6). If you can offer a suggestion
as to
how we can actually address this before then, I would most
welcome it.
I still don't get it. Why wait for 10.6? The next minor OS or xcode
update would be the right moment. The users don't ask Apple to
invent
some grand new scheme or to solve big philosophical problems, only
to
release software where one part is not incompatible with another
one, and
fix bugs that are trivial to fix.
I've got to second that, especially if the rumors that 10.6 won't
run on
PPC is true.
What? I think PPC hardware is still fast enough for many people and
even some professionals. In fact, still using an G4 PB 1Ghz with the
latest software is a great argument to recomment apple hardware to my
friends and collegues even if it seems slightly more expensive. It
just doesn't seem to get old very fast. I think its not time yet to
exclude them...
However, IFF PPCs are excluded from 10.6 (which I personally think
would be a wrong sign), those people should at least be left with a
very clean and working interface to x11 that would allow them to be up
to date for a while at least in that respect and stay connected longer
to some interesting open source stuff. Or would the x11 community even
then quickly change to 10.6 as minimum requirements for new x11 version?
Joe.
BTW: Concerning speed on my machine, x11-2.3.1 feels faster than
x11-2.2.1 - great!
I, at least, still do most of my work on a G5 and a
Powerbook G4, and if something in 10.5 is screwed up, I'd like it
fixed
rather than pushed to an OS I can't use.
Agreed; I also do most of my work on a PowerMac G5 and PowerBook G4,
and
while it's always frustrating to have a machine you paid a lot of
money for
fairly recently lose software support, it's much more frustrating to
see
support and fixes actively withheld. Waiting until 10.6 for anything
that
could (trivially) come out in 10.5.6 is, to me, extra frustrating.
Jörg Mertins
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