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 -- chown -R us ./base
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