Hi guys...I'm Michelle Klein-Hass and like Andy Kaufman used to say, I'm from Hollywood.
Mac users in Tinseltown are sweating right now, particularly if they have high-end G4 or G5 computers that cost lots and lots of money to them. They are looking down the barrel of Snow Leopard, aka Mac OS X 10.6.x, which will eliminate support for PPC. I have a MacBook and I'm actually looking forward to 100% Intel native code in Mac OS X, but I can totally understand the fear and loathing the advent of Snow Leopard represents. This is not a good time for the motion picture and TV industry, particularly indie movie production. Someone who made an investment in a mighty, studly Power Mac G5 for video editing and audio mixing in 2005 is looking at Snow Leopard coming in 2009 and going "WTF was I thinking????" Standing pat at 10.5 will be an option, but not forever. Eventually the Mac OS X world will move away entirely from Leopard, and their aluminum wonder will end up as a White Elephant. Unless they move to Linux. If Mac OS X was truly F/OSS, as Apple likes to boast, a fork of Leopard could continue to be developed and moved forward. However, only the inner BSD core of Mac OS, Darwin, is F/OSS, and you might as well be running FreeBSD or OpenBSD because all the bits that make Mac OS X Mac OS X are very proprietary. These machines need Linux, and they need a Media-oriented Linux in particular. I have a Power Mac G4 Dual Proc 533 and a single-proc Graphite G4 up in Santa Barbara, and I'm hoping that with the advent of Snow Leopard a Power Mac G5 might be inexpensively obtained, particularly from local academia. I'm hoping to attract some other people with G5s to this project if it happens. Pure:Dyne is the best choice for these machines. I want to create a Pure:Dyne PPC port. Unfortunately I'm a Linux user and not a Linux hacker. My boyfriend is a Linux hacker but he has other itches he wants to scratch first. I need to learn a lot to move this project forward, but I am willing to learn. -- Windows looking dingy and dull? Try the spiffy, more secure alternatives! Linux! Macintosh! Two great tastes that go great together! With the freshening power of xNIX! --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
