Does Red Hack suck?

[Jim Ricken]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:22:38 -0500
Simeon Wiehler <sw64 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> My experience runs surprisingly parallel to yours, Thierry.  I have been
> enormously disappointed with YDL-4.0 on my PowerBook.  I happily ran DOS
> without sound back in the early 80's and have no need for aural
> satisfaction server-side today, but that a company's newest flagship
> offering in the year 2004 cannot bring up sound on the very limited
> range of existing Apple architectures is *totally* unacceptable, most
> especially since sound worked fine in the 2.x and 3.x series.
> 
> On this list I was told simply that it couldn't be done, and that I
> should get on with my life soundlessly or go back a YDL generation.  I
> emailed Kai Schaft over at Terrasoft and he responded that sound wasn't
> a priority for them.  Seems they're busy with navy and airforce server
> contracts, and are doing some exciting work with the newest 64bit G5s.
> Which leaves us long-time YellowDog users eating yellow dog-shit.

I was thinking about downloading and trying out YDL 4.0 when it is available to to public,
and trying it out on my Mac 8600 upgraded to G4.
But I have been reading about the trouble some people have been having with it,would it be worth downloading?
Jim