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 lately with YDL, please refer to this page here: http://www.fixstars.com/en/company/press/20100720.html You'll notice that the current version of YDL 6.2.1 which allows support for modern boards. Terra Soft Solutions (TSS), you may recall was the lead developer for PowerPC systems to such a degree that that Apple only allowed TSS to resell PowerPC Macs with YDL and OS X/9 pre-installed without voiding the Apple warranty! In brief, buying from TSS was as much as add-ed value as buying from Apple itself. No other vendor could claim such a relationship. TSS was bought by Fixstars and you can read for yourself how they've continued work here: http://ydl.net/products/ydl/index.shtml Also this page may interest you regarding YDL for Nvidia CUDA: http://ydl.net/ydl_cuda/features.shtml You could further access different pages regarding hardware support, configuration, etc. on the same page. Take the time to go over the How Tos ("How to" do this or that) -- they could be helpful given your background and what you explained. On 3/4/2011 11:05 AM, 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 opens for > about 1 second and closes again. Ubuntu PPC is also not "officially" > supported anymore, either. Debian is the only desktop Linux that is, as far > as I know. > > Cheers, Tom
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