[ydl-gen] filesharing with Snow Leopard.

[Thomas Carlson]

Derick:

Interesting reading.  As far as I can tell, YDL development for PowerMacs ended in July of 2009.  CUDA is for AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T.

You are right, Debian PPC was a sub-branch of the original Debian and has been around only since August of 2000.  YDL put out its first version 1.1 in March of 1999, beating it to the punch by a year or so.

Actually, my first experience with Linux was with MkLinux which came out in 1996.  I had it running on my PowerBook 1400.  It only worked on NuBus Macs.  Some of the NuBus Linux diehards tried to keep things going until 2006 or so.  MkLinux still has its website up at...

http://www.mklinux.org/index.html

I think the dancing penguin with the shades is very cool.

Apple soon dropped it and went on to what would become OS X.  Later, of course, they dropped PPC just like Fixstars did.  Oh, well.  I don't mean to put anybody down.  Business is business.

Again, thanks for the response.

Tom

On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> Hi Tom!
> 
> Please remember that Ubuntu is a Debian deviant, or a "off-shoot" or
> sub-branch of Debian.  Also Debian came to support the PowerPC very,
> very late, almost reluctantly after Ubuntu dropped official support.
> 
> If you would permit me to provide some information regarding what is
> going on lately with YDL, please refer to this page here:
> 
> http://www.fixstars.com/en/company/press/20100720.html
> 
> You'll notice that the current version of YDL 6.2.1 which allows support
> for modern boards.  Terra Soft Solutions (TSS), you may recall was the
> lead developer for PowerPC systems to such a degree that that Apple only
> allowed TSS to resell PowerPC Macs with YDL and OS X/9 pre-installed
> without voiding the Apple warranty!  In brief, buying from TSS was as
> much as add-ed value as buying from Apple itself.  No other vendor could
> claim such a relationship.
> 
> TSS was bought by Fixstars and you can read for yourself how they've
> continued work here:
> 
> http://ydl.net/products/ydl/index.shtml
> 
> Also this page may interest you regarding YDL for Nvidia CUDA:
> http://ydl.net/ydl_cuda/features.shtml
> 
> You could further access different pages regarding hardware support,
> configuration, etc. on the same page. Take the time to go over the How
> Tos ("How to" do this or that) -- they could be helpful given your
> background and what you explained.
> 
> 
> On 3/4/2011 11:05 AM, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> Danny:
>> 
>> I suspected as much given the age of YDL 6.2, and it doesn't play well with the graphics or sound cards (oddly, 6.1 does) on my old machines, either.
>> 
>> Ubuntu works "out of the box" when it works.  Sound doesn't work on my PM G4 digital audios, and when I command line "eject" the superdrive opens for about 1 second and closes again.  Ubuntu PPC is also not "officially" supported anymore, either.  Debian is the only desktop Linux that is, as far as I know.
>> 
>> Cheers, Tom
> 
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