Usability of 10.3.9 in 2017

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Unlike a PPC Mac, the Duesenberg at least has cachet.

 

[Gorgonops]

cachet.

*shrug* I dunno, I'd swear that the entire reason Apple survived the 1990s was on the sheer power of cachet alone.

 

[ibmxt286]

The reason apple survived the 90s was because of elementary schools.  despite the fact that the LC series were the "Celerons" of Macs, they carried the company along.  while my school bought only Mac IIs and quadras, I have been to plenty of auctions where the majority of Macs were the LC Pizza boxes with SCSI CD Drives sitting on top

 

[Themk]

And the original mac architecture is dead. The NeXT architecture survived. NeXTStep begat Mac OS 10 in many ways.

 

[TarableCode]

VNC Over the USB 1.1 link works just fine btw, I used it to check the pihole status page and visit a few random sites.

Not terribly slow either.

 

[Themk]

VNC Over the USB 1.1 link works just fine btw, I used it to check the pihole status page and visit a few random sites.

Not terribly slow either.

Good, glad to hear that! Have you tried XQuartz? I am interested in how you feel its performance is. Thats how I use my G5 for some of the more modern stuff(when its not booted into Debian). Of course OS 10 PowerPC software runs really well for me.

 

[TarableCode]

When I was setting up and testing I used XQuartz on my 10.11 laptop and it was a bit more sluggish than VNC but im not sure if that's just X being X or if it's the Pi.

Still totally usable though imho.

 

[Themk]

When I was setting up and testing I used XQuartz on my 10.11 laptop and it was a bit more sluggish than VNC

Sluggish? It shouldn't be sluggish at all, as the X server and X client are running on the same machine! It should feel just as fast, if not faster, than native Cocoa applications.

 

[TarableCode]

OH You mean running X apps on the same machine, sorry I misread and thought you meant tunneling X through SSH.

I haven't tried what you're talking about though

 

[Themk]

No problem! My original point was that you could simply run what ever X application you wanted to natively ON your PowerPC, without having to have an RPi nearby. I would say that VNC works well for running something remotely.