On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:47, luigi scarso wrote:

I have an (old, I suppose) Mac pc on my desk. It works, but I don't know anything about it apart that it looks like a *nix from terminal. It has  has also Emacs !

I would like to use TeXLive or at least ConTeXt minimals and FontForge but it think I need at least a compiler first...

Any help really appreciate.

About the minimals: you won't be able to use them unless you start compiling the binaries yourself. At the moment I build the binaries on 10.6 and Apple provides backward compatibility for only two versions back. They want the users to keep buying new hardware and software on regular basis. Even if the old processor still runs fine, you won't be able to install any program any more, so you are forced to buy a new machine. If we wanted to support 10.3 (we theoretically could, but practically never got any single request until now), someone would need to compile the binaries on 10.5 or earlier version of OS X. TeX live does support 10.3 on PPC. Compiler ... you need XCode 1.x (and a bit of creativity to find it). Mojca