Saludos Miguel!
I'm addressing your question perhaps when you're no longer looking for
an answer. But when you are using YDL, the hardware is completely
under the control of Linux. In other words, Yellow Dog Linux (YDL),
like all other Linux distributions, functions as though you really are
using Unix. There are very slight nuances or variances of how a Linux
comes close to acting like Unix, but what this always means is that you
pretty much can change or control or modify how that or really any
machine's hardware (or computer) will respond to software applications,
other computers, and any other thing computer's can do. This is WAY
beyond what Apple's OS X would allow, and the Classic OS wouldn't even
be accessible without specialized applications.
So what I'm saying is, don't think of your computer anymore as a Mac,
when using YDL; think of it instead as a Linux box. For some people it
can be Pandora's box as the potential for software creativity is really
profoundly inspiring in either encouraging serious technical computer
science master wizardry (good) or going off the "deep end" into raging
madness AND it can drive one to experience both at the same time (these
can be good too, but it depends). Try to explain that to your friends
or associates....
So the Mac OS won't help because it wasn't designed to tell you the
truth (not completely) in the first place. YDL can be intimidating
because it is telling you exactly what a thing is, (as would any other
Linux), as you reported below. However, your real problem is
understanding what that information really means and making use of it
WITHIN LINUX or here YDL.
There are debates occasionally here on this list as to how easy things
should be for users, as far as how applications appear and are used
within Linux, but that is a tricky question because UNLIKE the Mac OS
or EVEN WINDOWS, EVERY LINUX user is and can be as much as a programmer
as he or she wishes to be AND make contributions coding for ANY one of
thousands of Open Source projects involving applications AND how Linux
behaves and works as an operating system.
However, I'm moving too far ahead of you.
You should focus on learning Linux well. Get a few books and learn not
just programming, but understanding a bit more of the fundamentals of
how a computer recognizes devices and how the software itself informing
the computer about the device works. This is a bit much, but it is the
core of beginning to comprehend not only Linux, but Linux on ANY
computer of ANY make; and yes, although the distinctions between Linux
and Solaris or Linux and AIX are very vast (in my opinion) they are
also close enough to be recognized the same way a car engine all over
the world shares similar principles but it would be quite a challenge
to get a regular fellow who is not a mechanic and get him to recognize
how any one component of an engine done in say France, is anything like
the same component as designed in Italy and so on.
Likewise learning Linux is at least as difficult as that. But, boy
once you get it; there's no forgetting it.
Of course the spaces of your brain may start to fill up with only Linux
and computer stuff, and other human realities such as anniversaries,
birthdays and so on may over time just
drift into oblivion. So if you are just reaching the point where you
consider an anniversary at the same level as doing a monthly system
overview as though you were a cron daemon -- you might want to back off
a bit and rejoin the human social experience.
Best wishes....
On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:20 PM, Miguel A. Alvarez wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to this mailing list so if I'm doing something
wrong, please le me know. Anyway, a friend of mine
donated me an early version iMac with an G3 233MHZ
processor, it has YDL 3.0 and I would like to know who
can I make my 256Mb usb jumb drive secure work in this
configuration.
When I open Control Center of YDL and choose
Information USB Devices this is what I see.
USB OHCI Root Hub (1)
--Hub [iMac kbd]
--JUMPDRIVE SECURE
--M2452
--M4848
However I'm new messing with MAC's I don't know what's
exactly that I have to do. Any help would be greatly
apreciate.
Regards
Miguel A. Alvarez
(ps) Excuse my English
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