[ydl-gen] YDL on PB17
Derick Centeno
aguilarojo at verizon.net
Thu Nov 2 11:26:33 MST 2006
On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:59:00 -0800
Warren Nagourney <warren at phys.washington.edu> wrote:
> Just a heads-up - I discovered that I do indeed have "accelerated"
> video. I found out by turning off acceleration and the difference
> was immense. I guess the single-buffered windows fooled me: moving a
> window quickly sometimes produces artifacts which are not present in
> OSX, which uses double buffered windows.
>
> Not I just need to get a comfortable desktop environment. I hate KDE,
> so it must go (too windows like) and I need to find out how to turn
> on trackpad tapping and get some of the apps I use in OSX working
> (things like RealAudio, a good TeX installation and MOL, for those
> programs I need to run in OSX. Also a good mail program - any
> suggestions?) I am inclined to use Windowmaker - as an old NeXTie,
> it would be probably most comfortable.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> -wn
>
>
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Hi Warren!
Regarding a currently available desktop environment within YDL 4.1 there are 3 others you can try:
1. Gnome
2. XFce
3. TWM
All applications available within KDE are available, although their icons and means of accessing
them are different according to which desktop one chooses. You may find it easier to first check
the projects (here's a one stop reference: http://xwinman.org/vtwm.php) responsible of these
different environments and learn more regarding their respective concepts.
Of course, by the time you get used to whatever choice you make YDL 5 should be out and it
should be published here:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/breakdown/
which computers YDL 5 will run on.
Trackpad works fine within YDL 4.1. I can easily choose to use either Trackpad or (usb wireles
mouse - I use Logitech V500) and even use both at the same time. Pop open bottom to extract and use
receiver and turn mouse on. Then use as you please. Scroll wheel replaced by gentle all
metallic slope, and so no "gunk" to collect within device. Looks cool with Powerbooks too! Running
YDL from a PB using this device confuses everyone! I rather enjoy that almost as much as irking
Norberto!
There's Helixplayer (https://helixcommunity.org/) which one can download, compile and install on
one's own and other apps available under the Sound & Video Menu within Gnome. Any of these should
be a good enough replacement for whatever is used in OS X.
Regarding TeX here is what is within YDL 4.1 (within my laptop):
[aguila at arakus ~]$ sudo yum info "*TeX*"
Setting up repositories
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
Name : gettext
Arch : ppc
Version: 0.14.3
Release: 1
Size : 3.7 M
Repo : installed
Summary: GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages.
Description:
The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for
producing multi-lingual messages in programs. Tools include a set of
conventions about how programs should be written to support message
catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message
catalogs, a runtime library which supports the retrieval of translated
messages, and stand-alone programs for handling the translatable and
the already translated strings. Gettext provides an easy to use
library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language
catalogs and is a powerful and simple method for internationalizing
programs.
Name : gettext-devel
Arch : ppc
Version: 0.14.3
Release: 1
Size : 2.9 M
Repo : installed
Summary: Development files for gettext
Description:
This package contains all development related files necessary for
developing or compiling applications/libraries that needs
internationalization capability. You also need this package if you
want to add gettext support for your project.
Name : jadetex
Arch : noarch
Version: 3.12
Release: 13
Size : 6.3 M
Repo : installed
Summary: TeX macros used by Jade TeX output.
Description:
JadeTeX contains the additional LaTeX macros necessary for taking Jade
TeX output files and processing them as TeX files (to obtain DVI,
PostScript, or PDF files, for example).
Name : latex2html
Arch : noarch
Version: 2002.2.1
Release: 3
Size : 11 M
Repo : installed
Summary: Converts LaTeX documents to HTML
Description:
LATEX2HTML is a convertor written in Perl that converts LATEX
documents to HTML. This way e.g. scientific papers - primarily typeset
for printing - can be put on the Web for online viewing.
LATEX2HTML does also a good job in rapid web site deployment. These
pages are generated from a single LATEX source.
Name : passivetex
Arch : noarch
Version: 1.25
Release: 5
Size : 331 k
Repo : installed
Summary: Macros to process XSL formatting objects.
Description:
PassiveTeX is a library of TeX macros which can be used to process an
XML document which results from an XSL transformation to formatting
objects.
Name : perl-Text-Kakasi
Arch : ppc
Version: 1.05
Release: 10
Size : 19 k
Repo : installed
Summary: kakasi library module for perl
Description:
This module provides libkakasi interface for perl. libkakasi is a part
of KAKASI.
KAKASI is the language processing filter to convert Kanji characters
to Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji and may be helpful to read Japanese
documents.
More information about KAKASI is available at <http://kakasi.namazu.org/>.
Name : tetex
Arch : ppc
Version: 3.0
Release: 6.FC4.ydl.0
Size : 47 M
Repo : installed
Summary: The TeX text formatting system.
Description:
TeTeX is an implementation of TeX for Linux or UNIX systems. TeX takes
a text file and a set of formatting commands as input and creates a
typesetter-independent .dvi (DeVice Independent) file as output.
Usually, TeX is used in conjunction with a higher level formatting
package like LaTeX or PlainTeX, since TeX by itself is not very
user-friendly.
Install tetex if you want to use the TeX text formatting system. If
you are installing tetex, you will also need to install tetex-afm (a
PostScript(TM) font converter for TeX),
tetex-dvips (for converting .dvi files to PostScript format
for printing on PostScript printers), tetex-latex (a higher level
formatting package which provides an easier-to-use interface for TeX),
and tetex-xdvi (for previewing .dvi files in X). Unless you are an
expert at using TeX, you should also install the tetex-doc package,
which includes the documentation for TeX.
The Red Hat tetex package also contains software related to Japanese
support for teTeX such as ptex, what is not a part of teTeX project.
Name : tetex-afm
Arch : ppc
Version: 3.0
Release: 6.FC4.ydl.0
Size : 25 M
Repo : installed
Summary: A converter for PostScript(TM) font metric files, for use with TeX.
Description:
Tetex-afm provides afm2tfm, a converter for PostScript font metric
files. PostScript fonts are accompanied by .afm font metric files
which describe the characteristics of each font. To use PostScript
fonts with TeX, TeX needs .tfm files that contain similar information.
Afm2tfm will convert .afm files to .tfm files.
If you are installing tetex in order to use the TeX text formatting
system, you will need to install tetex-afm. You will also need to
install tetex-dvips (for
converting .dvi files to PostScript format for printing on PostScript
printers), tetex-latex (a higher level formatting package which
provides an easier-to-use interface for TeX), and tetex-xdvi (for
previewing .dvi files in X). Unless you are an expert at using TeX,
you should also install the tetex-doc package, which includes
documentation for TeX.
Name : tetex-doc
Arch : ppc
Version: 3.0
Release: 6.FC4.ydl.0
Size : 93 M
Repo : installed
Summary: The documentation files for the TeX text formatting system.
Description:
The tetex-doc package contains documentation for the TeX text
formatting system.
If you want to use TeX and you are not an expert at it, you should
install the tetex-doc package. You also need to install the tetex
package, tetex-afm (a PostScript font converter for TeX),
tetex-dvips (for converting .dvi files to
PostScript format for printing on PostScript printers), tetex-latex (a
higher level formatting package which provides an easier-to-use
interface for TeX), and tetex-xdvi (for previewing .dvi files).
Name : tetex-dvips
Arch : ppc
Version: 3.0
Release: 6.FC4.ydl.0
Size : 1.8 M
Repo : installed
Summary: A DVI to PostScript converter for the TeX text formatting system.
Description:
Dvips converts .dvi files produced by the TeX text formatting system
(or by another processor like GFtoDVI) to PostScript(TM) format.
Normally the PostScript file is sent directly to your printer.
If you are installing tetex, so that you can use the TeX text
formatting system, you will also need to install tetex-dvips. In
addition, you will need to install tetex-afm (for converting
PostScript font description files),
tetex-latex (a higher level formatting package which provides an
easier-to-use interface for TeX), and tetex-xdvi (for previewing .dvi
files in X). If you are installing TeX and you are not an expert at
it, you should also install the tetex-doc package, which contains
documentation for the TeX system.
Name : tetex-fonts
Arch : ppc
Version: 3.0
Release: 6.FC4.ydl.0
Size : 58 M
Repo : installed
Summary: The font files for the TeX text formatting system.
Description:
The tetex-fonts package contains fonts used by both the Xdvi previewer and
the TeX text formatting system.
You will need to install tetex-fonts if you wish to use either tetex-xdvi
(for previewing .dvi files in X) or the tetex package (the core of the TeX
text formatting system).
Name : tetex-latex
Arch : ppc
Version: 3.0
Release: 6.FC4.ydl.0
Size : 20 M
Repo : installed
Summary: The LaTeX front end for the TeX text formatting system.
Description:
LaTeX is a front end for the TeX text formatting system. Easier to
use than TeX, LaTeX is essentially a set of TeX macros which provide
convenient, predefined document formats for users.
If you are installing tetex, so that you can use the TeX text
formatting system, you will also need to install tetex-latex. In
addition, you will need to install tetex-afm (for converting
PostScript font description files),
tetex-dvips (for converting .dvi files to PostScript format for
printing on PostScript printers), and tetex-xdvi (for previewing .dvi
files in X). If you are not an expert at TeX, you should also install
the tetex-doc package, which contains documentation for TeX.
Name : tetex-xdvi
Arch : ppc
Version: 3.0
Release: 6.FC4.ydl.0
Size : 1.9 M
Repo : installed
Summary: An X viewer for DVI files.
Description:
Xdvi allows you to preview the TeX text formatting system's output
.dvi files on an X Window System.
If you are installing tetex, so that you can use the TeX text
formatting system, you will also need to install tetex-xdvi. In
addition, you will need to install tetex-afm (a PostScript font
converter for TeX), tetex-dvips
(for converting .dvi files to PostScript format for printing on
PostScript printers), and tetex-latex (a higher level formatting
package which provides an easier-to-use interface for TeX). If you are
not a TeX expert, you will probably also want to install the tetex-doc
package, which contains documentation for the TeX text formatting
system.
Name : texi2html
Arch : noarch
Version: 1.76
Release: 2
Size : 1.4 M
Repo : installed
Summary: A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator
Description:
The basic purpose of texi2html is to convert Texinfo documents into HTML,
and other formats. Configuration files written in perl provide fine degree
of control over the final output, allowing most every aspect of the final
output not specified in the Texinfo input file to be specified.
Name : texinfo
Arch : ppc
Version: 4.7
Release: 4
Size : 1.6 M
Repo : installed
Summary: Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files.
Description:
Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online
information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU
Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation.
Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both
online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you
are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.
Name : x3270-text
Arch : ppc
Version: 3.3.2.p1
Release: 3.ydl.1
Size : 303 k
Repo : installed
Summary: IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator for text mode.
Description:
The c3270 program opens a 3270 terminal which emulates the actual look of an
IBM 3278/3279 terminal, commonly used with mainframe applications.
x3270 also allows you to telnet to an IBM host from the x3270 window.
Install the x3270-text package if you need to access IBM hosts using an IBM
3278/3279 terminal emulator without running X.
Name : xmltex
Arch : noarch
Version: 20020625
Release: 2
Size : 2.4 M
Repo : installed
Summary: Namespace-aware XML parser written in TeX.
Description:
Namespace-aware XML parser written in TeX.
[aguila at arakus ~]$
Regarding an email program, I've become partial to something called Sylpheed-Claws
(http://www.sylpheed-claws.net//features.php).
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