MOL for YDL 4

[Ryan Nix]

Thanks for the support, Derick! 

The issue in getting people to switch to a Linux desktop is backward 
compatibility.  Having MacOnLinux or Win4Lin means having the best of 
both worlds.  Its really important to demonstrate this.  Linux is too 
new for late adopter type people, so this might easy the perceived 
switching pain.

Derick Centeno wrote:

>Dear Ryan:
>You want to show your students something hot; show them "Graphing
>Calculator" which works in OS 9; it is being reborn in Tiger!
>
>Play with it a bit and you'll have more than enough material to work
>with.  That little sucker can handle not only 2D planes but 3D and
>animation of hyperdimensional objects!! It laughs at Julia Sets and the
>program which is part of OS 9 is a demo!!  NOT EVEN THEIR FULL PRODUCT!!
>
>I'm trying to assuage your misery with a bit of ice cream here, but as
>usual the early wisdom so popular in the US' early years remain true
>today.  For every Itch there is a Scratch and the Devil's ALWAYS in the
>DETAILS.
>
>You may be able to match your kernel with the mol packages but my
>current experience has shown me more times than I care to admit, that if
>that works then something else essential goes...like my ethernet or
>firewire modules all of sudden can't be found.
>
>I got my YDL 3.0 kernel-2.4.20-8d supporting everything I need together
>with firewalls.  I'm staying put.  Don't let this ruin your week-end. 
>You can still demonstrate xine or gnuplot in YDL; of the two xine with
>the gloom audio-visualizer active is a thing to behold!  Put any music
>in, choose your interface and you and your students will be stunned!
>
>The Gimp is great; if you can figure it out.  Blender(www.blender.org)
>is just outstanding for engineers, chemistry, physics and artists.  An
>outstanding multiplayer game in YDL is bzflag (www.bzflag.org).
>
>I kid you not...play with xine this weekend.  
>
>On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 11:49, Ryan Nix wrote:
>  
>
>>Damn ! 
>>
>>MOL is such a cool feature and from their instructions, it "looks" like 
>>it isn't that complicated to setup.  I was really hoping to show it off 
>>to this school district next week. 
>>
>>Derick Centeno wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>Hi Ryan:
>>>Some perspective; the last time mol worked for me was just before YDL
>>>2.3!  I've stayed away since... even though I've tried and tried again
>>>with upgrading kernels etc. 
>>>
>>>On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 11:34, Ryan Nix wrote:
>>> 
>>>
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>>>
>>>>Anyone had any luck with this?  I saw on the site it isn't work yet, but 
>>>>MOL has never worked for me, even with 3.0.1
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