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), similar to those I worked with at school. They originally ran OS X Tiger, which Apple stopped supporting last year. Many school districts (cash strapped) have an abundance of older PPC machines that can't even run OS X Leopard, let alone the latest version. I would like for there to be a viable option, such as desktop Linux, that would work on these machines to enable their continued use. But it would have to install properly and not require a lot of command line work to enable file and screen sharing.
Mostly, I have worked withe the PPC version of Debian. Squeeze has just come out, we are on to Wheezy. Debian seems to be where most of the ongoing development in PPC Linux seems to be happening. Problem is, on my machines, the Debian installer assigns the wrong kernel module to the system such that the sound doesn't work. Also, file and screen sharing require a lot of command line work to connect with machines running later versions of OS X because of their use of Bonjour for password encryption. This is a problem with Samba, too. To put things simply, desktop Linux would just have to work, out of the box, for it to be useful to school districts. This may very well be a big waste of time. I find that many old time Linux geeks kind of sniff at the idea of accommodating the average computer user. Hence, articles on Slashdot like this: http://linux.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/03/03/006250 Again, thanks for your response. Cheers, Tom __ Thomas Carlson 2319 La Senda Santa Fe, NM 87505 505-603-5526 http://www.ifixoldmacs.com On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Derick Centeno wrote: > Hi Tom! > > The only difference YDL has versus other Linux distros is that YDL runs > on PowerPC systems. This means that you should be able to utilize > keyboard commands and scripts/macros implemented elsewhere in > traditional Linux window managers and environments like KDE, GNOME, e17, > or your favorite windows environment. For me, you can't go wrong with XFCE. > > First, regarding the windows environments, make sure that yum knows > where all the repositories are for acquiring whatever libraries, tools, > etc those environments need. You can pick up nice information how to > program yum at the YDL Board (http://yellowdog-board.com/) > > Regarding shortcuts in Linux you can program them yourself very easily > using macro shortcuts embedded within the windows environment you use. > Nautilus within e17, will behave differently from say xfce or gnome but > the principles are similar. Here is a brief page discussing what to > expect: > http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/03/create-shortcut-and-hotkey-to-eject.html > > All the best... > > > On 3/3/2011 4:21 PM, Thomas Carlson wrote: > > ... Is there any keyboard command like that in YDL? >> >>> >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> __ >>>> Thomas Carlson >>>> 2319 La Senda >>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >>>> 505-603-5526 >>>> http://www.ifixoldmacs.com >> _______________________________________________ >> yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] >> Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general >> HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
