On 27/10/06, Bill Perrotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am putting this pmac together for someone who doesn't have a computer. > The yellow dog forum suggests a way to modify bootx to work with ydl 4. I > might have to do get version 4 installed first then install klash. The > moderator on ydl forum is talking about posting ydl tutorials. I suggested > one for installing ydl on old world macs and one for klash.
Hi Bill, that's a commendable activity of yours! I presume the recipient is not exactly the most computer-literate of people. In this case, you may find that having the fake Flash is FAR worse than having no Flash at all. Klash is undoubtedly quite unstable and will only run the bare minimum of code. In this case, you may find that a Flash web site will bring Firefox to a grinding halt, rather than simply not working or redirecting the user to an HTML-only version. It's probably better not to support Flash at all than to do it half-assed (since 99.9% of Flash developers do a half-assed job anyway). Depending on what they want to do with their computer, you may be far better off installing Mac OS 9 onto the computer. If all they're doing is browsing, e-mailing and printing, you'll be fine with YDL. If they want to do _anything_ more (particularly using peripherals) make sure you check to see if the peripherals or actions work without intervention. You will probably need to write the user a short 'how to' on how to mount/unmount/eject CDs and floppy disks. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
