[X-SW] Has Tiger been tamed?

[Carlos Leal]

Upgrading your SE/30 to OS 7.5.5 and using Shareway along with an  
Appletalk to Ethernet bridge or an intermediary machine, perhaps a  
pizza box Mac 6100 or similar that does Appletalk over ethernet  
natively, would be preferable to me rather than dropping OS X for the  
desktop.

Not wanting to get into OS wars but as one who does use Linux servers  
amongst others, I'd recommend finding a workaround first. The break  
between Appleshare and Appleshare over IP seems a logical place for  
Apple to decide where backward compatibility should end.

If your Tiger machine is a server, then go ahead to Linux as the  
benefits of Tiger as a server are not great enough for most  
individuals. Otherwise, I find OS X in general and the latest update,  
Tiger, to be too trouble-free to ignore. I do ignore some of the eye-  
candy Apple felt compelled to include in order to keep the software  
revenue stream going.

The SE/30 is a great little box, I still have a travel case in the  
closet for it from when I used to fly cross-country with one weekly.  
Whenever I think of this, I appreciate my Powerbook even more.

--Carlos

On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:35 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:

> At 10:34 -0600 12/16/05, Carlos Leal wrote:
>> I'd say its time to take the plunge.
>
> Tiger still refuses to talk to my SE/30 file server running OS 7.5.1.
>
> Apple has said that they did it on purpose and, because of that, I  
> shall probably move to Linux rather than try Tiger again.
> --