Has anyone apart from me actually tried running Linux on a Mac PPC machine.
A few years ago I installed Lubuntu on a MacMini PPC and tried to build
a PPC Linuxversion of Livecode,
and got nowehere.
Quite apart from my sad efforts at that, the machine was as slow as wet
cement; functionally useless.
Linux LiveCode standalones do not run on Linux PPC distros.
Running 10.4 on a MacMini PPC is just fine unless one has a desire to
hook up to the internet, at which point there is a (slight)
risk of complications.
Richmond.
On 6/8/17 5:56 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Richmond wrote:
> So, backwards compatibility does not interest you?
>
> I, for one, run Mac Machines running MacOS 10.4 PPC.
>
> A lot of these machine are being dumped in poor countries where they
> can be used for good purposes.
I can appreciate the desire to get full life out of hardware, and
indeed it would be nice of Apple continued supporting older machines.
But the choice to stop supporting older hardware and OS versions is
Apple's, not LiveCode's.
Moreover, there is a solution available to extend the life of
otherwise-unsupported hardware: Linux.
Using a supported version of an OS that's receiving critical security
patches along with other updates is the safest choice, and one that
could not be more economical given a purchase price for most Linux
distros of zero.
For hardware that old you may find Lubuntu more satisfying than Ubuntu
or other distros with steeper RAM and graphics requirements. Both
Alejandro and myself use Lubuntu and have found LiveCode runs quite
well on it.
In fact, if you use my LiveNet plugin (bundled in the IDE; see
Development -> Plugins -> GoLiveNet) the feeds on the second card
there are aggregated, packaged, and posted every five minutes by a
LiveCode app running on my Lubuntu box.
You can find more info on Lubuntu for PPC here:
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads>
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