[OSM-talk] End of road for JOSM on OS X for ppc

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/9/11 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 09:39, Morten Kjeldgaard <mok at bioxray.dk> wrote:
>> Yesterday I tried to upgrade JOSM on my trusty old Apple Powerbook G4.
>> However, JOSM now needs Java 6SE, which is _not_ supported on OSX version
>> 10.5 (Leopard). If you own a Mac with an Intel CPU, you can upgrade to OS X
>> 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but that is not an option for machines using the PPC
>> architecture.
>>
>> I had to downgrade JOSM again to version 3376, which is the end-of-the-line
>> version for Mac OS X running on a PPC chip. So, if you own a machine like
>> that, don't upgrade JOSM!
>
> One thing you could do to run newer versions of JOSM is to install
> Ubuntu or Debian on the machine and dual-boot it.


You might also try to contact apple and complain about their product philosophy.

cheers,
Martin