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

[Arigead]

?var Arnfjo"r? Bjarmason wrote:
> 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.
> 
> A big JOSM editing session can take hours anyway, so dual-booting to
> edit isn't that costly.
> 

Don't think that changing the OS to Ubuntu will make any difference.
I've not checked but if you do change to Ubuntu you'll still be trying
to download the Java version for Linux on PPC. I don't think that will
be supported by sun. But like I say I've not checked. The latest Java is
only supported on Intel 86 Arch as far as I remember.