Time to say goodbye to Tiger?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Josh,

Joshua Root wrote:
> On 24/1/2025 08:19, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
> I understand it feels a bit wrong to throw away working hardware. 
> There's always the option of Linux if you just need those commands?

Well, linux is another Operating System. I install certain tools, e.g. 
gcc, ssh, git, subversion, to be able to work on 10.4. So e.g. I can use 
a good version manager and connect with github repositories and test 
code on the old system.
Without MacPorts that would be very hard.
But "upgrading" linux would defeat that.

Also, I have a PowerBook running Linux to test PPC code on an updated 
operating system, completely other purpose. But by itself, Linux is so 
much worse than Tiger!

so it is not just about "not throwing away old hardware" but really 
using PPC with its OS.

On intel, it is much useful. My MacBooks that came used with 10.4 were 
immediately replaced with 10.5 and 10.6 which runs better on Intel actually.

>
>
> If someone wanted to put in the work to fork base prior to the removal 
> of the 10.4 workarounds and curate a tree of ports that are known to 
> work on Tiger (or even older), that would be fine.
Didn't do a fork, could be useful. I use really a subset of command-line 
tools. For 10.5 instead I have an overlay.
But why throw away those workarounds?

Riccardo