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Holding off on Tiger

I've decided that I'll be holding off on installing Tiger on my TiBook.

After reading some of the Tiger compatiblility pages that have popped up, and doing a little research related to other comments from other friends, there are a couple of applications that don't currently work with Tiger, and I just can't upgrade yet.

The first one I found that doesn't work was the Apani Nortel VPN client. I sent email to the Nortel contact that work uses to deal with non-Windows VPN clients, and got a reply saying that a Tiger-compatible client won't be ready for 4-6 months. I don't plan on waiting 4-6 months to install Tiger, but this is a reason to wait a little while.

The other piece of incompatible software is something I don't really think I can go without: Codetek Virtual Desktop. It's not even the virtual desktops that I would miss the most - I can't live without Point-to-Focus or Focus-Follows-Mouse. CTVD is the only way to enable point-to-focus on a system-wide manner. There are builtin ways to enable it for Terminal.app and X11.app, but that's all. Yeah, CTVD's point-to-focus isn't perfect, but I blame that on some limitations of OSX, more than CTVD.

I think I'll be waiting for a Tiger-compatible version of CTVD, and then upgrade on my TiBook. The lack of VPN will be annoying, but I think I can make do with running the VPN client on my Windows box.