installed leopard onto my powerbook G4 January 08, 2008
So, how does Leopard run on a G4? Pretty smoothly. Before, I was using a multiple desktops application called 'Desktops', now I'm using Spaces and it's noticeably quicker and less buggier.
Also, I'm noticing more and more rounded corners everywhere. Select boxes in Safari are round when clicked on now, instead of having square corners.
I knew that Ruby on Rails came by default, but I was surprised that I didn't have to do any work other than install MySQL to get my laptop ready for work. Although the mysql dump from our production server onto my laptop took a while.
As for Django development, I had to install a lot of things from scratch. I decided not to go the MacPorts way, because it seemed like every other package was broken during compilation. Plus, I really prefer binary package managers instead of source code. Python 2.5 came installed by default, I needed to grab 2.4 and 2.3 (for backwards compatibility) and a few libraries.
Overall, I'm pretty happy. I was hoping Firefox was going to be faster, but it's still so slow to the point that it's unusable. The Firefox 3.0 beta release is a LOT faster than 2.x, but it doesn't have google gears support, which is why I need Firefox in the first place.
