'War Stories'
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My problem seems to be that my old OS (10.1) can't support a decent browser...this means I can't use things like Turbo Tax, for example. It keeps getting in the way of me using my computer for things like that, which are important to me.
Tom, folks keep telling me that Tiger would kill my wee iMac. I'm not entirely sure that that is true, but I'm ig'nant.
Allyson, I had to add memory to my iMac before it could take Tiger. That and a firmware update is all it needed, though.
I have a 700 MHz processor with 512 MB of RAM. Well, I started out with 512, at least. I'm keeping heavy graphic files and music on my la cie.
That's a faster processor than I have. I think 512 MB is supposed to be what you need for Tiger, though I bumped up to 1 GB since I was upgrading. It definitely sounds like your iMac is beefier and newer than mine, so I can't imagine why Tiger would run on mine and not yours. Unless your data files are leaving not enough memory free or something.
Here are the requirements for Tiger:
It looks like some iMacs are supported. If you have a firewire port then I'd say you can probably use it.
There's always Yellow Dog Linux, but I'm thinking you want less adventure in your computing experience.
One can upgrade to Tiger on many unsupported Macs, you just need a 3rd party utility called XpostFacto.
It works, it just isn't as straightforward as a regular install.
HAR.
About 6 years ago I made my Lombard into a dual-boot between OS 9 and Yellow Dog. I had never done Linux before. It was a bitch trying to find help locally or online because few people were running Linux on a Mac and even fewer were doing so on a laptop. I tinkered with things for a while then decided to give up when it became clear that the new MacOS was going to be based on FreeBSD. Of course, I didn't actually have the money for a new Mac box or OS X for another 4 years...
If I'm a good girl, I should start messing around in the terminal today. I still don't know shit about Darwin.
Hidden sky --- thanks for the tip that it might be the firewall, I updated and now I can listen to streaming radio!
Hidden sky --- thanks for the tip that it might be the firewall, I updated and now I can listen to streaming radio!That's great, I'm glad to hear it worked! As a hockey fan, I know following the play via the live stat sheet isn't the same as a radio or TV broadcast.
Has everyone seen this documentary on ARPAnet from 1972? It's quite cool (and free, from Google Video).