Re: Future x11, 10.6 & PPCs
Re: Future x11, 10.6 & PPCs
- Subject: Re: Future x11, 10.6 & PPCs
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:47:50 -0700
On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:41, Jörg Mertins wrote:
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?
All I'm going to say about this is that I have a G5, and I want to
have X11 running well on it. Read into that whatever you want.Attachment:
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