First of all, thank you for your thoughtful response.
Let me explain why I am involved with these issues. I am a retired teacher and
computer lab tech who worked in a Mac-centric school district who happens to
have a gaggle of PowerMac G4 machines (mostly digital audios and one
quicksilver),
Unfortunately, development on YDL stopped with 6.2. Others have
converted to Ubuntu, saying it works right out of the box. I haven't
made the leap yet but will have to soon. It is debian based and comes
with a rich desktop environment.
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 07:13 -0700, 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
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
Thanks for the correction. As regards these venerable aging machines
it's pretty easy to misplace one's personal enthusiasm regarding a
unique function or quality of a system's architecture as being something
anyone should obviously appreciate in spite of the reality that
there's little to no
