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

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Hi,

Thankyou for your email. I appreciate your advice. I was just wondering if
there is anything that I can do to improve performance of OSX?

Thanks,
Al



On Sat, 26 May 2007 jmzorko at mac.com wrote:

> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 07:51:37 -0700
> From: jmzorko at mac.com
> Reply-To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
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> To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
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> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] running ydl 5.0.1 on a powerbook lombard
>
>
> 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.
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