First experiments with YDL 4 on a PowerBook

[Christopher Molnar]

I too, tried an installation.... the only feedback I have is that the 
iBook G4 is still not supported, neither is the airport extreme in it. 
X does not configure properly and I do not have the time or energy to 
fix the problems. I am really surprised that the G4 machines are not 
supported. Anyways, I am back to OSX and I am giving some thought to 
what I am going to use on my servers - which have been holding on YDL 
3.x in hopes of a great and up-to-date 4.0 release. I also did not see 
a working copy of tomcat or java - 2 musts in my work life.

I am a bit disappointed in what I have waited months for. If someone 
from TerraSoft tells me that the problem with X in the white iBook G4 
is solved, I will give it a second chance.

-Chris


On Aug 11, 2004, at 8:47 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> I've installed YDL 4.0 beta on my PB 1Ghz 12". Good news is it was a 
> rather
> smooth install (with the exception of on package that caused errors, 
> I'm
> re-downloading the second CD to see if this was a download problem).
>
> The bad news are:
> - this is a typical Red Hat install: be prepared to have a lot of work 
> if you
> don't want to run Gnome (@#!)
> - for the same reason, I suppose, you can't shutdown from KDE without 
> first
> going to the GDM login screen
> - none of the special keys work (you can't set the screen brightness, 
> you
> can't control the sound volume and of course you can't suspend
>
> I understand Yellow Dog is not responsible for the later, but this 
> reduces the
> battery life.
>
> Thierry
>
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> sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
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