How free is YDL? - correction

[Derick Centeno]

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Hi Paulo:

This (meaning the newbie and general mailing lists) is the " free  
community support" you are referring to.  Also free are the various  
public mirrors which contain YDL when it is available for download,  
the various HOW TOs explaining all kinds of stuff, and more.  So  
there is a lot of free stuff; in my experience the challenge has been  
digging through all that when you are looking for solving something  
specific causing a problem at the moment.

IF you decided to buy YDL (say you had to have the latest and richest  
version in terms of quality and special technical additional  
wizardry) and pay for installation support then these and other  
services are available from TSS directly; then you'd be dealing with  
the commercial version of what YDL comprises as a professional  
package.  One alternative would have been to have bought the PS3 with  
YDL already installed for you as part of your purchase.  You can  
refer to the web page for more details of their other commercial  
services: yellowdoglinux.com or terrasoftsolutions.com.

It may interest you that the instructions for installing YDL onto a  
PS3 is available for free and is explained here (along with some  
other things I omitted):

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/

Regarding your pursuit of a cd burner, I'm puzzled as to why you are  
bothering.  According to what is published here (and repeated  
elsewhere in different ways throughout the web):

The PS3 will also support CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R  
formats.

The quote came from here (should you wish to read the article yourself):

http://www.800hightech.com/technical_info.php?cat=5&prod_id=18&subcat=75

In other words, the PS3 is quite capable of burning CDs, DVDs and blu- 
ray.  Again I'm puzzled regarding why you are bothering looking for a  
CD drive.

You may be able to save yourself some time by referring to your  
department counselors or advisers to determine whether someone there  
already has the optical disks available for YDL; then all you need to  
work on is preparing the PS3 itself for reformatting and/or other  
necessary procedures to put YDL onto the PS3 HD.  After the  
repartitioning is done so that the Game OS is on it's own partition  
and the other partition is ready to have YDL loaded onto it, then you  
can proceed with installing YDL onto the PS3.  Be sure to read and  
download the necessary instructions from the above link.

As to public mirrors containing YDL which you can download for free,  
all that is available here:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/downloads.shtml

You know Paulo, your FINALS should be coming up in a couple of  
weeks.  You may need to focus on that instead of this stuff or if you  
must get into things YDL now to address particular projects you've  
got to complete then it may be worth it to become real close buddies  
with your Computer Science department and discover what solutions  
they are willing to share with you.
Good Luck....

On Nov 14, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've been trying to find the ISOs for YDL without much success. I've
> however, have seen them for sale.
>
> How free is YDL? Or is it just commercial?
> If there's a  free version, will you still get any community support
> in case of problems?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk
> http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm
> PhD Student @ ECS
> University of Southampton, UK
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