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A step closer to Leopard on a beige??

68kMLA PowerPC 4 posts Jan 31, 2008 to Jan 31, 2008

#1 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 - 17:03 68kMLA

http://lowendmac.com/mail/0801mb/0130.html#2

Interesting. Once all the work is done getting Leopard to run on a beige G3, I am sure someone is going to build on that and get it running on an upgraded 601-604 machine.

#2 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 - 18:16 68kMLA

But why? Tiger is a pain to get on my 8500, why make it further harder?

#3 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 - 19:23 68kMLA

Because it can be done.

Although Panther is fine on G4'd 8500, I wouldn't run Leopard on it. Not because it couldn't be done mind you, but because it really wouldn't be all that useful to me.

#4 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 - 22:43 68kMLA

it might be doable on a Beige G3 but i would not run it on one, i have issues with Leopard on my DA 533 due to only having 768mb ram (right now) with the HDD always swapping. with the slower bus and slower speed of the IDE bus on the beige G3 (minus the IDE bus if you have a PCI IDE controller) its going to be a nightmare.