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[Derick Centeno]

Hi Mihai:

Part of the problem is Yahoo itself.  Although there is a version of  
their product for Linux (to my surprise) they are not specific  
regarding which Linux.  Is it Linux which is compiled specifically to  
run on Intel and compatible CPUs or is it Linux compiled specifically  
for PowerPC family CPUs.  Obviously, as your note makes clear it  
doesn't run; therefore we must assume that it is compiled to run on  
Intel machines.

This has nothing to do with YDL6 or TSS, this is something that Yahoo  
alone can change as Yahoo Messenger is not an open source product.   
If it was open source, all you'd need is to recompile the source  
within YDL6 for the computer you have.  Nearly every open source or  
GPL based program works like that.

In other words, say I download R, which is a statistics package, most  
people who are aware of it run/use it on their Intel machines, but  
because this is also an open source product I can download the source  
and recompile the program within the YDL6 on the PowerPC computer I  
have.  By the way, R works fine.

Anyway there are other programs available within the official  
packages provided for YDL6 and on the internet (all of which are open  
source or GPL - General Public License - based) which you can  
download, install and use to communicate which whomever you please --  
just not on the Yahoo network until they choose to compile their  
product for the PowerPC family.  The advantage to switching to the  
open source community is that your friends can use whatever computer  
they use (supposedly mostly Intel) and you can use what you've got  
which is a computer within the PowerPC family and they can use the  
same open source software as you do.

On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Amanda Wolf wrote:

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>> form_name: services_request
>> tech_support: tech support
>> fname: mihai boc
>> email: mihaiboc at gmail.com
>> notes: hi, my problem is brief i can't install yahoo messanger on
>> ydl 6
>> can u help me with this???
>> verify_box: sun
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