Hi Mihai:Part of the problem is Yahoo itself. Although there is a version of their product for Linux (to my surprise) they are not specific regarding which Linux. Is it Linux which is compiled specifically to run on Intel and compatible CPUs or is it Linux compiled specifically for PowerPC family CPUs. Obviously, as your note makes clear it doesn't run; therefore we must assume that it is compiled to run on Intel machines.
This has nothing to do with YDL6 or TSS, this is something that Yahoo alone can change as Yahoo Messenger is not an open source product. If it was open source, all you'd need is to recompile the source within YDL6 for the computer you have. Nearly every open source or GPL based program works like that.
In other words, say I download R, which is a statistics package, most people who are aware of it run/use it on their Intel machines, but because this is also an open source product I can download the source and recompile the program within the YDL6 on the PowerPC computer I have. By the way, R works fine.
Anyway there are other programs available within the official packages provided for YDL6 and on the internet (all of which are open source or GPL - General Public License - based) which you can download, install and use to communicate which whomever you please -- just not on the Yahoo network until they choose to compile their product for the PowerPC family. The advantage to switching to the open source community is that your friends can use whatever computer they use (supposedly mostly Intel) and you can use what you've got which is a computer within the PowerPC family and they can use the same open source software as you do.
On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Amanda Wolf wrote:
form_name: services_request tech_support: tech support fname: mihai boc email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] notes: hi, my problem is brief i can't install yahoo messanger on ydl 6 can u help me with this??? verify_box: sun_______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
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