MOL for YDL 4

[Derick Centeno]

OK. I understand your concerns a bit better thanks...  You may benefit
from reading the exchange between Mr. Brian Gillman and myself in our
discussion of "Compiling Mono" -- you'll be as surprised as I was!
We are just on the verge of a level of interoperaperability that has
never been seen before... and Mono will be the way it occurs!

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 16:37, Ryan Nix wrote:
> 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:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>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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