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Geekbench 2.3.0, the latest version of Primate Labs’ performance-measuring tool, no longer supports Macintosh computers relying on processors built on the PowerPC architecture. This, and other changes, are detailed further below. Posted earlier this week, Geekbench 2.3.0 is an important update to an even more ... |
12 April 2012
15:11 GMT |
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FreeBSD, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures, is now at version 8.3 RC2. The developers of FreeBSD 8.3 RC2 stated that this should be the last Release Candidate version before a the final version of FreeBSD 8.3 will be available for download. The freebsd-update utili... |
2 April 2012
10:38 GMT |
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FreeBSD, an operating system for x86, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures, is now at version 8.3 RC1. The developers of FreeBSD 8.3 RC1 have said that there will probably be another release candidate before the final release.The freebsd-update utility provides support for binary upgrades of i386 a... |
7 March 2012
09:57 GMT |
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The Security Update 2012-001 launched this week delivers a ton of fixes, but it also breaks Rosetta compatibility for some users, rendering their PowerPC apps useless. Apple has now released Security Update 2012-001 version 1.1 to address this issue.
Earlier this week, one Softpedia reader commented: “Don... |
4 February 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, an enterprise Linux platform suited for a range of applications across the IT infrastructure, just received an important security update.According to the Red Hat developers, the multi-threaded BIND daemon uses the atomic operations feature to speed-up an access to shared data. This featu... |
10 January 2012
10:33 GMT |
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FreeBSD, an operating system for x86 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures, is now at version 9.0 RC3. According to the developers, this iteration should be the last release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 9.0. The final release builds should be available in a week or so."The third an... |
9 December 2011
04:08 GMT |
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Once upon a time, when Commodore still sold computers and Apple wasn't the hottest name in tech, there was an operating system that went by the name of AmigaOS, and now a company called Hyperion Entertainment wants to revive these days with a new netbook that will run the OS.A prototype of this laptop is already... |
26 October 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Desktop & mobile gaming studio Freeverse is making the “hard decision” to discontinue several of its titles, amid Apple’s OS X Lion launch, as well as in light of their GameSmith phase-out.
Addressing all its “outstanding and good-lookin' customers,” Freeverse explains on its blo... |
25 July 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Following Adobe in its footsteps, video games publisher Aspyr Media has issued a knowledge base article to highlight some problems posed by the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system - OS X Lion.
As previously reported, Mac OS X version 10.7 completely drops support for Rosetta, the PowerPC emula... |
22 July 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Mac OS X 10.7, the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system dubbed Lion, has dropped support for several elements that help make up the OS X experience today.One of those is Rosetta, the dynamic translator that enables PowerPC applications to run on Intel hardware.While Snow Leopard also shipped wit... |
27 February 2011
16:46 GMT |
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Canonical, through Colin Watson, announced a few minutes ago that starting with today, December 14th, they will no longer build ISO images for the PlayStation 3 gaming console.On April 1st 2010, Sony dropped the support for Linux-based operating systems on their PlayStation 3 gaming console, by removing the "Other OS... |
14 December 2010
09:24 GMT |
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The folks at VideoLAN have rolled out an important update to the 1.1.x branch of VLC for Mac OS X, addressing security issues on the PowerPC side. Mac OS X fans wielding a PPC mac are being told that VLC Player 1.1.4.1 is a “recommended” software update.“VideoLAN and the VLC development team are hap... |
29 September 2010
05:58 GMT |
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The latest releases of Opera 10.70 have been synchronized across all supported platforms, for the second time since Opera Software announced the move. In mid-August 2010, Opera Software had started synchronizing the Build numbers for Opera 10.70 on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Just a week ago, the Norway-based brows... |
31 August 2010
10:41 GMT |
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A post to the official Blizzard forums reveals that World of Warcraft will no longer be supported on Macintosh computers equipped with PowerPC processors, the change occurring in an upcoming patch scheduled for release before the debut of WoW Cataclysm.“Shortly before the release of Cataclysm a patch will be re... |
31 August 2010
09:45 GMT |
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Mozilla program manager Mike Beltzner has noted that the next version of Firefox is not supported by PowerPC computers. The update will not offered automatically to users of PPC Macs, going by Beltzner’s post.In response to a tester’s acknowledgement that Firefox 4.0 beta 4 build 3 was inoperable on old P... |
29 August 2010
12:58 GMT |
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As avid Softpedia readers should know by now, Apple is widely believed to have given the order for mass production of Snow Leopard install discs. Last week’s Build 10A432, claimed to be the Golden Master edition of the software, is seemingly arriving even sooner than expected. So, why not greet Snow Leopard wit... |
18 August 2009
10:43 GMT |
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John Nack writing over at the Adobe blog has confirmed that the company behind Flash has decided to drop PowerPC support in the next generation of its Creative Suite. In other words, Creative Suite 4, or CS4, is the last version of the powerful collection of programs that is compatible with the PPC architecture. &ld... |
13 August 2009
09:05 GMT |
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'A long way from the console games that processor has come, indeed,' (Yoda would comment on the subject), and now on to the dark side. Not having much success with the PS3, Sony is in quite a bad spot right now. Not to mention the exploding batteries phase they went through, it looks like they're not g... |
13 March 2007
09:59 GMT |
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