I'm running a dual boot of Tiger and Leopard on my iBook G4 and PowerBook G4. Anything else I've used I put to Tiger if possible.
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What OSes are you using on your PPC systems
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OS 8.6 on my Sawtooth, then Tiger on my Gigabit Ethernet, PowerBook G4 12" and G4 Mini.
I also occasionally use OS 9.2 via Classic on Tiger.
I also occasionally use OS 9.2 via Classic on Tiger.
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Dual boot of Debian Sid on SSD and OS X Leopard on 7200 HDD. Both systems run very smoothly and perform quite competently online, and the two of them are gorgeous in their own ways. - What a terrible decision to abandon these machines so soon...
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Any Mac I own that can run or potentially run Leopard will have Leopard installed.
Any Mac I own that can't run Leopard, I install Tiger.
My server is a 450mhz B&W G3 so right now it's the only Mac I currently operate that is running Tiger (Server).
Any Mac I own that can't run Leopard, I install Tiger.
My server is a 450mhz B&W G3 so right now it's the only Mac I currently operate that is running Tiger (Server).
This is exactly what I do. I have a lot of Macs, mostly PPCs. I use a sawtooth a lot, mainly Leopard on it. It's pretty heavily upgraded as far as sawtooths go. A dual 450Mhz CPU from ebay, 2GB ram, its running SATA drives via a PCI SATA card. A Geforce 6200 256MB GPU which brings full QE/CI and a gigabit ethernet card and USB 2.0 card as well. It runs very well and is usable on the web. I constantly browse this site using it.
I also have a few PowerBook G4s that either dualboot Tiger and Leopard or just have Leopard. My main purpose of even having Tiger on those is to use classic if I need to.
I even have a B&W G3 that I run Leopard on. After putting a G4 in it of course. It's about as fast as my Cube is with Leopard.
It's not Mountain Lion... No Notification Center and there is no break in the dock.
I believe all that is courtesy of the "Mountain Leopard" theme.
"Waterfox" is just TenFourFox with a rename and an icon change. Same goes for Leopard-Webkit.
The rest is just a mixture of Mountain Leopard and clever renaming, icon swapping, and background setting.
I would have included the "Launchpad" icon as well next to the Mac App Store, but the Dashboard icon did not want to change to the Launchpad one for some reason, no matter how many times I reinstalled the ML icon theme.
Mountain Lion is in my opinion, the last great OS X. Or rather, the last OS X worth bothering with, period. So it seems to me, fitting it would go on the last great Mac, or at least one of them.
The rest is just a mixture of Mountain Leopard and clever renaming, icon swapping, and background setting.
I would have included the "Launchpad" icon as well next to the Mac App Store, but the Dashboard icon did not want to change to the Launchpad one for some reason, no matter how many times I reinstalled the ML icon theme.
Mountain Lion is in my opinion, the last great OS X. Or rather, the last OS X worth bothering with, period. So it seems to me, fitting it would go on the last great Mac, or at least one of them.
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Snow Leopard is the last great OS X IMO. everything after really wasn't a desktop OS. However Lion-Mavericks were good OSes for contemporary machines, just not on the level of Snow Leopard."Waterfox" is just TenFourFox with a rename and an icon change. Same goes for Leopard-Webkit.
The rest is just a mixture of Mountain Leopard and clever renaming, icon swapping, and background setting.
I would have included the "Launchpad" icon as well next to the Mac App Store, but the Dashboard icon did not want to change to the Launchpad one for some reason, no matter how many times I reinstalled the ML icon theme.
Mountain Lion is in my opinion, the last great OS X. Or rather, the last OS X worth bothering with, period. Seems fitting it would go on the last great Mac, or at least one of them.
"Waterfox" is just TenFourFox with a rename and an icon change. Same goes for Leopard-Webkit.
The rest is just a mixture of Mountain Leopard and clever renaming, icon swapping, and background setting.
I would have included the "Launchpad" icon as well next to the Mac App Store, but the Dashboard icon did not want to change to the Launchpad one for some reason, no matter how many times I reinstalled the ML icon theme.
Mountain Lion is in my opinion, the last great OS X. Or rather, the last OS X worth bothering with, period. Seems fitting it would go on the last great Mac, or at least one of them.
You didn’t like Mavericks? I always felt it ran faster and Yosemite was a disaster so it had a lot of fans.
El Capitan, High Sierra, and Mojave are all very stable. (Doesn’t really fit in the PPC section though!)
Mavericks always ran slower than Mountain Lion for me, and a lot of things about it gave off a feel that it was more of a Yosemite beta than a real Mountain Lion 2.0.
Besides, it did away with the cats and space themes. Given that, when did I or anyone ever say we want our OS to be obnoxiously Californian?
But certainly, I'll take Mavericks any day over anything that followed. Everything that followed was garbage, especially after El Capitan.
I've had horrible experiences with El Capitan and the Sierras. They feel as if they were shipped broken and never tested enough. So many things don't work that used to in older releases. It's extremely laughable Apple still thinks their stuff ""just works"", and that they continue to supposedly ship ""the most advanced operating system in the world"". You can't be advanced when form over function wins every single time in your domain.
But of course, that doesn't fit in the PPC section either.
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I know – they have software problems. But I happen to think that their current hardware problems pretty well cover up the software problems they are going through.
Mojave has been junk for me. Not just speed but I hate the UI. The peak of Mac OS X was 10.4-10.6. Of course I am not a modern Mac user anymore. I switched back to Windows, all my OS X software will work on my PPC or early Intel machines.
And it is at this point, when you know your business and its model is an utter trainwreck.
That's why I refuse to buy anything from Apple now... I'm almost certain I will be picking up a Lenovo X1 soon. Current MBP is hot garbage.
Before I moved to Linux, all I ever got was anger, defeat, and frustration, because no matter what I did, my system was always fighting me. Because it flaunted how it knew better than me.
Like, only two years ago, I wanted to work at the Apple Store as a first job. Be very deeply entrenched in their ensnaring ecosystem, and encourage others to do the same. Of course, that was before I started using an Intel Mac running their latest offerings. Then I found out just how egotistical they are when they pump out heaps of s*!t that don't function as they should, year after year, and continue to act how they do.
Needless to say, that's all in the past now, and I'm a very happy user today.
Switching to Windows is ok I guess. As an owner of almost 200 computers, Windows 10 has its issues, and they’re pretty serious. I love my 2015 maxed out MBP on Mojave and I’ll keep it it unless something incredible comes this year. But I have plenty of PPC macs (so I can stay in this thread). In fact, the mail should bring the untested Titanium G4 I got on eBay in a few minutes. I’ve never used a Titanium PowerBook before.