Hi, Thankyou for your email. I appreciate your advice. I was just wondering if there is anything that I can do to improve performance of OSX?
Thanks, Al On Sat, 26 May 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 07:51:37 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > <[email protected]> > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] running ydl 5.0.1 on a powerbook lombard > > > Al, > > Have you considered just running OSX 10.4.x (Tiger) on it? It > includes Java 1.5: > > pugsleybutt:~/work/trunk/gne_ps_dna/client/util/macosx jmzorko$ java - > version > java version "1.5.0_07" > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_07-164) > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_07-87, mixed mode) > pugsleybutt:~/work/trunk/gne_ps_dna/client/util/macosx jmzorko$ > > ... and Flash will work, and you can view .wmv files with Flip4Mac > WMV (which is free). > > I'm not bashing Linux at all -- I have 2 mini-ITX low-power servers > running it (1 running Debian, the other Gentoo), and I have YDL 5 on > my PS3 -- but if Flash / QuickTime / WMV is important to you, OSX > 10.4.x might be the best choice, and it's as real a *nix as any other. > > Regards, > > John, cross-platform C++ developer (so hey, I like PPCs, and x86s, > and Sparcs, and whatever else I can get my code to run on <smile> ) > > Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound > http://www.fallingyou.com > > > > One of the things that I liked about OSX is that all those ecards > > people > > like to send me, and quicktime moves worked. Also, I am having a cross > > promotion system for my website built that uses flash/shockwave to > > be used > > on eBay, and it would be nice to be able to see it working. There just > > doesn't seem to be the support for them in Linux that there should be, > > just wondering if things are any better now? > > > > Still right now with OSX there are some files that I am not able to > > view. > > Like .wmf files. I also can't seem to run some Java appls that > > require a > > newer version of Java. It would really be nice to having things > > like this > > working too. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
