Re: Running a Tiger Beta on my G3?

2009-12-10 Thread Dan
At 11:49 AM -0600 12/10/2009, Christian Wacker wrote: I have access to 4 copies of the 10.4.x betas (2 10.4 ones and 2 10.4.3, i'm assuming one build is intel, one is PPC) Is it a good idea to run these on my iMac? I am also wondering if these would run, seeing as my iMac is the baseline G3

Re: Running a Tiger Beta on my G3?

2009-12-10 Thread Christian Wacker
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote: What's the point of running a beta when the real version is released? It's neat to see how software progresses. I have 120gb of Windows betas and applications of the sort, and I find it interesting to see an OS evolve

Re: Running a Tiger Beta on my G3?

2009-12-10 Thread Elliott Price
I agree, but I wouldn't think it would be that different. Like the OSX beta had the apple in the middle of the bar... That would be cool to run. But 10.4 betas can't be much different from the released version, there isn't even that much of a difference between 10.3 and 10.4. 10.4 is

Re: Running a Tiger Beta on my G3?

2009-12-10 Thread Christian Wacker
I can see a simple solution to getting past the decomissioning (My iMac has a bad CMOS battery, so it won't see the time) as long as it isn't connected to the internet, it should load up properly. i'll check with my 'supplier who gave me the public beta along with 4 developer previews, to see if

Re: Running a Tiger Beta on my G3?

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Chapman
I found there's a big difference between Panther and Tiger... or do you mean in the beta versions of each. Aside from that why not get Tiger full version off ebay... why screw around with betas; or maybe that's the point here? Elliott Price wrote: I agree, but I wouldn't think it would be

Re: Running a Tiger Beta on my G3?

2009-12-10 Thread Christian Wacker
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Bill Chapman pagew...@interlog.com wrote: I found there's a big difference between Panther and Tiger... or do you mean in the beta versions of each. Aside from that why not get Tiger full version off ebay... why screw around with betas; or maybe that's the