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Does anyone know of a replacement available from anywhere, for Rosetta, that will allow PowerPC programs to run when using Lion?
So far, I haven't heard of anything - but then again, I haven't heard any reason why the version of Rosetta bundled into 10.6 wouldn't run in 10.7. I also haven't heard whether 10.7 will remove an existing install of Rosetta when upgrading from 10.6. I guess we'll know for sure in a couple of weeks.
So far, I haven't heard of anything - but then again, I haven't heard any reason why the version of Rosetta bundled into 10.6 wouldn't run in 10.7. I also haven't heard whether 10.7 will remove an existing install of Rosetta when upgrading from 10.6. I guess we'll know for sure in a couple of weeks.
It might depend on how Lion does it's install. I have read that SL did an "Archive and Instal" by default when simply choosing to upgrade, vice just an "upgrade" (I honestly don't know, I never upgraded, both my Macs are new enough to have come with SL pre-installed). If it does this then Rosetta would be lost. If it's just an upgrade, then I suppose it could still work....
I guess I'm wondering why it wouldn't...
I really want to upgrade to Lion, but for the time being I think I'll wait a bit and see if someone comes up with a means of providing a Rosetta-like solution. If not I'll probably ditch the MS apps altogether and move Illustrator to my Win 7 system.
You could use virtualization software (e.g. Parallels, Fusion, Crossover) to run SN simultaneously with Lion, but that would both create licensing issues, and it would be sufficiently complex that such a solution would only appeal to nerds.
I had read that with Lion, Apple is allowing it to be run in a VM.
I was under the impression that Snow Leopard and earlier can't be (or rather, aren't allowed to be) run in a VM. Are they relaxing that for Snow Leopard also when Lion drops? Or am I just mis-informed?
And how would one run a PPC app under Crossover? AFAIK, Crossover is strictly for loading Windows programs under Linux/OS X.
BTW… I just recognized your name and website. I've made reference to your discussion about defragging in OS X a few times here when providing counterpoints to the "OS X doesn't need a defragger" myth. It's a great breakdown and analysis on the matter.
As far as I know, there were no major changes to the core OS, so why would it suddenly not work?
I haven't heard that either. SN is specifically prohibited in the license from being run in a VM. I don't know whether there is anything technically that would keep it from running. We can hope that Apple will change their mind about this, but I haven't heard anything that would indicate that they intend to.
Lion doesn't have Carbon,
You're just not understanding what's going on.
Lion is a Cocoa OS. Rosetta is a Carbon environment allowing Carbon apps to work.
Since Rosetta itself is Carbon, it requires Carbon to work. Lion doesn't have Carbon, so it won't work, and whoever maintains Rosetta (Apple) won't update it to be a Cocoa app because you shouldn't still be using Carbon apps. You've had YEARS of warning about this.