Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Aug 2006 23:29 UTC
There are some new clues that Mac OS X Leopard will drop G3 support. Its ReadMe file does not mention it, its web pages do not mention it and Apple even made a deliberate change to their 64bit webpage to remove the G3 mention recently. My take: This was not unexpected. For each new version Apple required one more additional feature in order to work (in the past it has been USB, then firewire etc) and now it's G4+. I bet that the client version of OSX after Leopard would require a supported 3D QuartzExtreme-compliant graphics card in order to boot up.
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RE[6]: This Worries Me...
by twenex on Fri 18th Aug 2006 03:29
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There was a distro this week whose name I forget which tanked after 3 years, despite the fact that the distributors had promised 5 years' worth of support from date of installation. I certainly wouldn't want this to happen to Ubuntu or its users, but it could. OTOH if your Linux distro tanks you just switch to another; not something you can do when/if Be/Apple/Castle go under.
RE[7]: This Worries Me...
by ormandj on Fri 18th Aug 2006 03:39
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I think Apple has a much better chance of surviving given their current financial state than Gentoo! 
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I pointed out quite a few times that my main gripe is with the lack of security updates, not with the inability to run the latest OS. My point was that if being able to run the latest OS is the only way to get security updates, Apple should ensure that is possible for at least 5 years. Of course, if you need me to make this point again in my next comment, I'm perfectly happy to do so.
We'll just agree to disagree on this one.
This is where you and I disagree. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. 3 years desktop, 5 years enterprise support - I could agree with that. I wouldn't go any more though, otherwise you're stuck with a bunch of crufty stuff.
You keep bringing up Ubuntu. They JUST released LTS, and it's not even been but a few months. You have no idea what's going to be going on in 5 years. They have 0 track record. Heck, LTS was flawed out of the gates, they already have an updated release you have to install.
The difference being, you don't pay for Ubuntu "upgrades". Except in headaches. The kind I had while messing around with it on some of my machines, as in - it didn't install due to issues in the installer. Broken partitioning software. Etc. I could go on. Yes, you can "pay" for support. You seen the cost on it? Have fun.