breaking breaking news

[japester.livejournal.com]

literally.

the freshly released Apple hardware[0] will only run tiger. well that's just great. we had no plans on upgrading to 10.4 until later this year once some of the more pressing bugs had been worked out and our critical we need these applications were tested and known to work.
Yay, frickin' yay.

i'm getting annoyed with flash on ppc linux too. it regularly hangs my firefox and that's just not cricket.


[0] iMacs, G5 desktops and eMacs. unupdated hardware is still fine.

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[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Which PPC distro are you using?

[japester.livejournal.com]

OS X. the one that apple bl**dy well supplies.

oh, my powerbook. ubuntu 5 (hoary) kernel 2.6.8 (tried 2.6.11 but it didn't sleep too well

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, seems I'm not the only one that has problems with kernels newer than 2.6.8.1. Even if I'm using it on x86. And only some of the time.

Dunno what to say about Flash. I really don't use the version out of the multiverse repositiories, prefering one downloaded from Macromedia myself (much as I do Firefox). I know, they really frown upon installing this stuff yourself, but I like having Firefox in /home instead of /usr/bin. At least this way, everything's in two places instead of three.

[japester.livejournal.com]

that is a good thought about the flash. might try that. if it's available as a binary release. it's not. only linux-x86.

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Heh, and people say that Microsoft support policies are bad (Windows 2000 support ending this year! APOCALYPSE!!!).

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Oh boohoo =/ I'll have to support my wife's laptop myself. ;-p

[gholam.livejournal.com]

By support I mean updates.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

meh. I haven't updated since SP4 came out. That and I have some secured Win98 boxes that run fine. I'll survive.

[mellay.livejournal.com]

Right, because your wife can't do it herself...

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Touche, beautiful <3

[mellay.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

That's almost always been the case with Apple. New hardware needs new OS to run.

[japester.livejournal.com]

true, but they normally give you a bit of lead time and notice.

and not in my recollection, have they done a major software update and a hardware update at the same time and imposed this limitation.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

System 7.5 was the last time I recall that happening.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Actually it's happened a few times, when they've update hardware to match software capabilities, as they did this time (Well, with the eMacs and iMacs, not the PowerMacs).