On Aug 9, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:

> The problem with OS X on a G5 is the fact that Apple is abandoning
> support for the PPC Macs, so there won't be any more OS X updates. The
> recent lack of support for Java 1.6 for the PPC Macs is already made
> newer Java programming fail to run on PPC Macs.

But OS X is Unix...install the latest Java in /opt/java or someplace,  
change your JAVA_HOME env var and you're golden. You'll have to run  
some java apps the hard way, via starting them in Terminal, but  
they'll work otherwise.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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