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A Lesson in Leoparding
Hi all,
well, I did it. Yesterday I made the jump from Tiger (OS 10.4) to Leopard (OS 10.5) on my Mac. At first I did the upgrade, which left all of my stuff intact. The problem is that somehow my Python got messed up along the way. My Mercurial wouldn't work at all. I tried to fix it, but only succeeded in screwing it up even further.
So then I did the clean install of Leopard.
The clean install took about 45 minutes, and I'm happy to say that after installing all of my software, everything seems to work fine. Mercurial looks OK too.
I'm impressed with what I've seen so far. The only problem I have now is getting a JDK. I tried downloading JDK 5, but I get the message that the download is only for Tiger. Then I tried JDK 6 (which is why I upgraded in the first place), and I was informed that it was only for 64-bit machines (mine is 32).
So what do I do now?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
--James
Posted at 02:46PM Aug 22, 2008 by branajam in Personal | Comments[3]
I hear Apple hardware runs Ubuntu just fine. ;)
Posted by Martin on August 22, 2008 at 03:53 PM CEST #
Hi James - You could always use OpenSolaris instead - current 32-bit versions of the JDK are readily available for it. :-) Brian has details on how to dual-boot here: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html. Or you could use VirtualBox to run OpenSolaris as a guest operating system under Mac OS X.
Posted by Gregg Sporar on August 22, 2008 at 09:19 PM CEST #
Hi Gregg,
This is on my list of things to do when I get my new Mac in October. The hard drive space on my current Mac is limited, and I need all the space I can get. I expect my new Mac to have a bigger hard drive.
Posted by James Branam on August 25, 2008 at 04:55 PM CEST #