They were discussing it on Low end mac on facebook.... it was quite above my head, but that's what they seemed to be trying to do. It didn't have anything to do with Apple's official release, but with modifying the open source Darwin Os to run some modified verion of 10.5 and/or 10.6. Not too sure exactly, was way over my head. It could have been they were trying to run OS X 10.5 on something that couldn't handle it and that's what they were trying to hack--rewrite code actually, like altivec emulators or something I dunno.
This is not to put down APPLE--I still have a Powermac desktop running Os 9.2.2 (and I'm about to install 10.3.9) for legacy purposes. But! IF you don't need any legacy apple stuff, I'd really recommend some form of Debian PPC linux--Debian, MintPPC, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, etc. IF you still prefer Os X, I'd really consider OS X 10.3.9 Panther or Os x 10.4.11 tiger--its enough to get by, and that's all you'll reasonably be able to use with your computer. I have one computer using 10.3.9 that can still render facebook with the Opera browser, and still watch flash videos on youtube with the flash 9 plugin. With OS X 10.4, you can get flash 10, and a hack to trick a website into thinking you are using flash 11. My personal preference. I would try running Mintppc or Debianppc Linux. I have a G3 lombard with an even slower (333mhz) processor, But I can do quite a lot with Debian PPC and the ultra-lightweight Openbox desktop environment (no graphical desktop at all, just a black screen and right click to get a menu and sub-menus of applications) I can use facebook on iceweasel, and even play facebook flash games on it, such as words with friends. I can watch videos if I download them with flashvideoreplacer in 240p .flv format--yes yes grainy, but still worked pretty great. Or you can stream .3gp mobile videos by plugging in the RTSP protocol address into movie player. AND YES, I even got one video in HTML5 to work normally in an application called minitube. On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:10 PM, john Miller wrote: > > Yeah people are trying to work on a hack around it, >> > > What? Hack 10.6 to run on G3 PPC CPUs? Nope, can't happen. > > > but seriously with a 433 mhz processor I don't know why you would even >> try to put 10.6 on there, as it would be abominably slow. >> > > There's no 10.6 for PPC CPUs, period. No hack, no beta, no nothing. The > FINAL version of OS X that ran on a G3 CPU was a developer preview of > Leopard 10.5 build 9a303a. The final release version of OS X to run on a G3 > CPU is Tiger 10.4.11 build 8s169. > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for > those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g-books > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
