[ydl-gen] quid ps3 linux after 2012 - addendum

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Jim,

To address your question, "What's with that?" it is easy to forget that
many project including NeoOffice are utilize volunteer programmers.
However, there is a "work-around" if you could get your G4 or other
PowerPC (assuming you have one) to work although YDL is fairly dated by
now, the office and other desktop applications within YDL 4 through YDL
6.2 should work rather well -- if you are willing to doing a little
reprogramming of the yum search engine which searches, collects and puts
together all dependencies for YDL applications.  Instructions on doing
that can be found here:
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3017#p11364


You would have to switch from relying upon OS X based apps to utilizing
instead YDL; you could keep OS X around for running movies and stuff
related to visual stuff but overall I believe Apple has stopped
supporting OS X for any PowerPC systems.  However the software for YDL
remains available and if you've some programming skills then perhaps not
everything is lost.  So instead of NeoOffice which provides an interface
to OS X, within YDL you use OpenOffice which remains available.

What you already know and what I expressed earlier in this thread
remains true, the issue that many of us face is about expense/value
considerations is paramount.  The other issue to consider is time, not
everyone is willing to engage in the programming effort to do whatever
it takes to make the YDL distro remain useful, if not current.

All the best...

On 4/27/2011 10:59 AM, Jim Hart wrote:
> I'd like to weigh in here, if I may. The Intel designs have one very
> major drawback...heat. Which implies noise! I've been working off and on
> for over a year to locate inexpensive parts to build the functional (but
> hardly aesthetic) equivalent of my beloved G4 Cube. The fan-less CPU
> cooler, alone, weighs nearly as much and is nearly as large as the Cube,
> and cost $75 on e-Bay. The cost of the rest of the parts that I've found
> is still over $1600, which I can 't afford. So, yes, cheap Intel-based
> systems are available. But they aren't quiet, never mind silent. (I
> recommend that anyone spends some time in a soundproof room and notice
> what happens physically and emotionally. The constant noise in our world
> causes stress and tension that we don't recognize because it's always
> there.)
> 
> So, anything that will keep my Cube(s) going is welcome.
> 
> That said, the O.S. isn't the only or even, necessarily, the biggest
> roadblock anymore. More and more applications aren't available for PPC.
> The newest version of Neooffice, for example, is Intel only. Some (I
> forget which one I ran across) won't even build from source on PPC. It's
> one thing for the O.S. to be CPU dependent, but desktop applications?
> What's with that?
> 
> End of rant. I just had to say something because of the cost argument.
> 
> Regards to all,
> 
> Jim Hart

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