2011/4/27 Matty Sarro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msarro@gmail.com">msarro@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey everyone. I am new to YDL, so please be gentle. Tonight I am<br>
getting a 17" Powerbook G4 and I have a few questions.<br>
Does YDL 6.2 stack up against the current rev of RHEL (6?) Or is it<br>
closer to 5.5/5.6?<br>
Has anyone been able to get compiz fusion working?<br>
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I'm assuming that since the hardware is rather limited compared to<br>
what we have to deal with in the x86 world, there is better out of the<br>
box support? Is this correct?<br>
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I appreciate any help anyone can provide.<br>
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-Matty<br>
</blockquote></div><br>A ppc lappie? Nostalgia? :) Good on you! I did toy around with the idea of buying some old cheap G5's but on ebay they're still not cheap enough to consider buying just to toy around.<br><br>
AFAIK, YDL is a RHEL 5.x recompile... <br><br>Re: eye candy. My YDL experience is somewhat limited to a PS3 and for a very brief period, an old G4 mac with no GPU to speak off. I don't know if anyone has ever got stuff like compiz running on a high end ppc with a GPU. My recollection was that the device driver for video on that G4 was not quite up to the OS X version (understandably, as presumably Apple knew more about the underlying hardware).<br>
<br>Try here: they are mostly ps3 people though.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.yellowdog-board.com">http://www.yellowdog-board.com</a> <br><br>Oh, by the way, I found this (I'm more a debian person) but I really don't know how good the GPU is supported<br><br><a href="http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/">http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/</a><br>
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Do let us know how you get on! <br><br>Robert<br>-- <br>chown -R us ./base<br>