[ydl-gen] running ydl 5.0.1 on a powerbook lombard

[jmzorko at mac.com]

Al,

Have you considered just running OSX 10.4.x (Tiger) on it?  It  
includes Java 1.5:

pugsleybutt:~/work/trunk/gne_ps_dna/client/util/macosx jmzorko$ java - 
version
java version "1.5.0_07"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_07-164)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_07-87, mixed mode)
pugsleybutt:~/work/trunk/gne_ps_dna/client/util/macosx jmzorko$

... and Flash will work, and you can view .wmv files with Flip4Mac  
WMV (which is free).

I'm not bashing Linux at all -- I have 2 mini-ITX low-power servers  
running it (1 running Debian, the other Gentoo), and I have YDL 5 on  
my PS3 -- but if Flash / QuickTime / WMV is important to you, OSX  
10.4.x might be the best choice, and it's as real a *nix as any other.

Regards,

John, cross-platform C++ developer (so hey, I like PPCs, and x86s,  
and Sparcs, and whatever else I can get my code to run on <smile> )

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> One of the things that I liked about OSX is that all those ecards  
> people
> like to send me, and quicktime moves worked. Also, I am having a cross
> promotion system for my website built that uses flash/shockwave to  
> be used
> on eBay, and it would be nice to be able to see it working. There just
> doesn't seem to be the support for them in Linux that there should be,
> just wondering if things are any better now?
>
> Still right now with OSX there are some files that I am not able to  
> view.
> Like .wmf files. I also can't seem to run some Java appls that  
> require a
> newer version of Java. It would really be nice to having things  
> like this
> working too.