The "other distro" to offer ppc support!

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 00:17 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 09/16/2009 08:05 PM, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
> > I suppose security updates
> > will still be available for some time and it doesn't seem the $29.95 SL
> > upgrade makes a world of difference.
> 
> There are some people with really decent machines that were cut off from
> Leopard, and so now Snow Leopard is out, and they're SOL for security
> updates.  Something like an 800MHz flat-panel iMac is still a nice
> computer, would make a great Fedora machine.
> 
> Snow Leopard is mostly an engineering release, so when the next upgrade
> arrives, you'll find some Mac Pros with the quad-liquid-cooled G5's
> (sold into summer '06) on the auction block (cheap/unsupported).  They
> ought to be giving away Powerbooks with a fill-up at the gas station in
> Cupertino.
> 
> I'll have to make sure my local computer recycling nonprofit knows where
> to turn.
----
I'm hardly one to defend Apple and their policies. I have been using
Fedora PPC installations on old iMacs for many years now and am hardly a
fan of OSX but your information is wrong.

Less than a week ago, Apple issued Security Update 2009-005 which
included updates for both Leopard (10.5.x) and Tiger (10.4.x) which you
can clearly see here...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865

So your claim of 'unsupported' is not entirely accurate. I am unsure how
long Apple will be releasing updates for Tiger and Leopard and clearly
if you have a PPC based Macintosh, your days are numbered but they are
still supported. I'm never quite convinced of Apple's commitment to
security anyway and support is always just a credit card payment
away. ;-)

Craig


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