64 bit desktop apps

[Richmond Mathewson]

Has anyone apart from me actually tried running Linux on a Mac PPC machine.

A few years ago I installed Lubuntu on a MacMini PPC and tried to build 
a PPC Linuxversion of Livecode,
and got nowehere.

Quite apart from my sad efforts at that, the machine was as slow as wet 
cement; functionally useless.

Linux LiveCode standalones do not run on Linux PPC distros.

Running 10.4 on a MacMini PPC is just fine unless one has a desire to 
hook up to the internet, at which point there is a (slight)
risk of complications.

Richmond.

On 6/8/17 5:56 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> Richmond wrote:
>
> > So, backwards compatibility does not interest you?
> >
> > I, for one, run Mac Machines running MacOS 10.4 PPC.
> >
> > A lot of these machine are being dumped in poor countries where they
> > can be used for good purposes.
>
> I can appreciate the desire to get full life out of hardware, and 
> indeed it would be nice of Apple continued supporting older machines.
>
> But the choice to stop supporting older hardware and OS versions is 
> Apple's, not LiveCode's.
>
> Moreover, there is a solution available to extend the life of 
> otherwise-unsupported hardware: Linux.
>
> Using a supported version of an OS that's receiving critical security 
> patches along with other updates is the safest choice, and one that 
> could not be more economical given a purchase price for most Linux 
> distros of zero.
>
> For hardware that old you may find Lubuntu more satisfying than Ubuntu 
> or other distros with steeper RAM and graphics requirements.  Both 
> Alejandro and myself use Lubuntu and have found LiveCode runs quite 
> well on it.
>
> In fact, if you use my LiveNet plugin (bundled in the IDE; see 
> Development -> Plugins -> GoLiveNet) the feeds on the second card 
> there are aggregated, packaged, and posted every five minutes by a 
> LiveCode app running on my Lubuntu box.
>
> You can find more info on Lubuntu for PPC here:
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads>
>