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I’ve upgraded my PowerBook G4 from 10.3.9 (Panther) to 10.4 (Tiger). A view things that didn’t work out of the box:

Mail crashed after importing my old mail. Had to remove the preferences and configure my accounts all over again. Happely for me is that I swiched to IMAP a view weeks ago, so no mail was distroyed.
The machine is slow the first time that Tiger was launched. That is because ‘SpotLight’ (the new file/content search) is indexing the whole machine. After the indexing and a restart of the machine, opening some applications like ‘Firefox’ is going slower than on Panther.
The CPU is working a lot in idol state. On Panther the CPU is running at 1% and on Tiger it’s running on 15%. So my laptop becomes hot in less time.My Quanta doesn’t start anymore… Upgrading all fink packages helped. I had to upgrade to the last Xcode tools too, glad to have the last version on the Tiger installer DVD. (When you do a ‘fink selfupdate’ and/or ‘fink update-all’ do it several times to know for sure that you’ve upgraded all packages!) When you get errors, read the message carefully. Fink gives the sollution too! Most of the time tihis is: ‘fink build package’. My BitTorrent (3.4.2) client doesn’t start anymore.
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0×0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0×0002) at 0×000006ef
New tiger compatible version (4.0.2) is available, have to upgrade… And it works! Nice layout too!OroborOSX crashes sometimes. XDarwin causes the chashes. Didn’t find any info about this problem yet.

Had to upgrade ‘Firefox‘ to fix the nasty bold font in some sites. But all web fonts still does strange things with word spacing. (Had this problem on my Debian linux distro too a view months ago, then it was a problem with the freetype lib.) Missing sync for Pocket PC doesn’t work. Update available soon. (The update is NOT free when you’ve purchased missing sync before April the 1st 2005) There is a new GPGmail version that is Tiger compatible!

That’s it for now. More stuff is comming later.

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