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Matty Sarro | 26 Apr 2011 18:25
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[ydl-gen] Current rev?

Hey everyone. I am new to YDL, so please be gentle. Tonight I am
getting a 17" Powerbook G4 and I have a few questions.
Does YDL 6.2 stack up against the current rev of RHEL (6?) Or is it
closer to 5.5/5.6?
Has anyone been able to get compiz fusion working?

I'm assuming that since the hardware is rather limited compared to
what we have to deal with in the x86 world, there is better out of the
box support? Is this correct?

I appreciate any help anyone can provide.

-Matty
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Derick Centeno | 26 Apr 2011 22:40
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Re: [ydl-gen] Current rev?

I ran YDL 6.2 on a 15" G4 for a long time until the LCD screen failed.
So what I'm sharing is based upon memory.  Be that as it may, my
experience running YDL spans all the way back since it's earliest
incarnations when Terra Soft Solutions (the original creator/vendor)
initially released the product -- which is quite a long time ago.

In other words, what I don't recall regarding YDL aren't the most
important aspects of YDL.

Unfortunately for you as a beginner development from major Linux
distributions have all ceased; the development (programming work) which
does exist has become community based which essentially means whoever
has the time to write code after the real lives and jobs have been
addressed.  There may be some universities and computer research
departments which have active research projects which require writing
code for PowerPC systems or even current IBM Power systems
(http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/) but those projects may not be
contributing to any code related to your interests.

Another unfortunate problem is that the current reality of PowerPC
programming has as it's pre-requisite well developed programming skills
at the professional level which even some professionals cannot meet
because more current projects such as compiz fusion which is found here
( http://www.compiz.org/) requires that one understand enough about
Linux to prepare the computer hardware for compiling and building
software from source within Linux although YDL behaves exactly the same
way here; the problem is do you know how to do this?  See here
(http://wiki.compiz.org/).  Under hardware you'll notice a listing of
GPU (Graphic Processor Units) within the Compiz Wiki:
http://wiki.compiz.org/Hardware
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Robert Spykerman | 27 Apr 2011 10:31
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Re: [ydl-gen] Current rev?

2011/4/27 Matty Sarro <msarro <at> gmail.com>

Hey everyone. I am new to YDL, so please be gentle. Tonight I am
getting a 17" Powerbook G4 and I have a few questions.
Does YDL 6.2 stack up against the current rev of RHEL (6?) Or is it
closer to 5.5/5.6?
Has anyone been able to get compiz fusion working?

I'm assuming that since the hardware is rather limited compared to
what we have to deal with in the x86 world, there is better out of the
box support? Is this correct?

I appreciate any help anyone can provide.

-Matty

A ppc lappie? Nostalgia? :) Good on you! I did toy around with the idea of buying some old cheap G5's but on ebay they're still not cheap enough to consider buying just to toy around.

AFAIK, YDL is a RHEL 5.x recompile...

Re: eye candy. My YDL experience is somewhat limited to a PS3 and for a very brief period, an old G4 mac with no GPU to speak off. I don't know if anyone has ever got stuff like compiz running on a high end ppc with a GPU. My recollection was that the device driver for video on that G4 was not quite up to the OS X version (understandably, as presumably Apple knew more about the underlying hardware).

Try here: they are mostly ps3 people though.

http://www.yellowdog-board.com

Oh, by the way, I found this (I'm more a debian person) but I really don't know how good the GPU is supported

http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

Do let us know how you get on!

Robert
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