linux to leopard

Hi guys
just one question please, is it possible to upgrade from a linux system to leopard
the machine in question is a
Apple PowerBook G4 Titanium 550MHz 15" 768MB 20GB hdd

any feed back would be appreciated
thanks in advance

Officially that spec is below OSX Leopard, which requires a 867 MHz processor

iIt would run pretty slow, as well, even if you fooled OSX into an installation, and even if you added more RAM.

But what's the reason to dump Linux, is there a specific Mac app that you need to use.

Your system would easily run OSX Tiger 10.4, but if the apps you are after are Leopard or above only that wont be an option

the only reason is I'm not a big linux fan

I would see if you can get hold of 10.4 Tiger - a much better match for that machine

Thankfully retail copies of Tiger and now selling at more sensible prices, make sure you get a black X retail copy rather than a plain grey restore disk

thank you for your advice will go for that i think

I can vouch for tiger. I have it running on a G4 500Mhz, 768MB Ram and 18GB HDD. Not so hot for youtube, but runs safari, Adobe dreamweaver and photoshop CS3, Office 2004, iLife '09, and several PPC-based games (sim city 4, Zoo Tycoon 2, roller coaster tycoon 3, & a bunch of snes/nes/gb emulators.

brimac said:

thank you for your advice will go for that i think

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The key is going to be getting a *retail* edition (black disc). Grey system discs will not work with that machine - so make sure you are particular about the version you end up buying.