Re: [ydl-gen] Current rev?

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2011/4/27 Matty Sarro <[email protected]>

> Hey everyone. I am new to YDL, so please be gentle. Tonight I am
> getting a 17" Powerbook G4 and I have a few questions.
> Does YDL 6.2 stack up against the current rev of RHEL (6?) Or is it
> closer to 5.5/5.6?
> Has anyone been able to get compiz fusion working?
>
> I'm assuming that since the hardware is rather limited compared to
> what we have to deal with in the x86 world, there is better out of the
> box support? Is this correct?
>
> I appreciate any help anyone can provide.
>
> -Matty
>

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.

AFAIK, YDL is a RHEL 5.x recompile...

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).

Try here: they are mostly ps3 people though.

http://www.yellowdog-board.com

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

http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

Do let us know how you get on!

Robert
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2011/4/27 Matty Sarro <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:msarro@gmail.=
com">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockqu=
ote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"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&quot; 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>
<br>
I&#39;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>
<br>
I appreciate any help anyone can provide.<br>
<br>
-Matty<br>
</blockquote></div><br>A ppc lappie? Nostalgia? :) Good on you! I did toy a=
round with the idea of buying some old cheap G5&#39;s but on ebay they&#39;=
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 experie=
nce is somewhat limited to a PS3 and for a very brief period, an old G4 mac=
 with no GPU to speak off. I don&#39;t know if anyone has ever got stuff li=
ke compiz running on a high end ppc with a GPU. My recollection was that th=
e 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=3D"http://www.yellowdog-board.com">http://www.yellowdog-board.com</=
a> <br><br>Oh, by the way, I found this (I&#39;m more a debian person) but =
I really don&#39;t know how good the GPU is supported<br><br><a href=3D"htt=
p://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/">http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/</a>=
<br>

<br>
Do let us know how you get on! <br><br>Robert<br>-- <br>chown -R us ./base<=
br>

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