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To all,
I share a ~300GB partition between YDL and OSX on both my 12"
PowerBook and G5 Power mac workstation. For a few years now, this
scheme has worked flawlessly, using rsync to migrate data (add,
delete, mod) from one to the other, often more than once a day as I
leave or return to my offi
On Thursday 11 March 2010 02:09, william edwards wrote:
> i got mine on ebay 47$ epson cx5000. ps has list of compatible
> models on their site but i cant fiqure out how 2 get it to work on
> ydl but it works great on my 2nd ps3 with open suse. ebay has
> cheaper compatible models if u dont need a
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 06:43, angelo wrote:
> Hello everyone !
> Is there anyone who can suggest a still in production Epson ink-jet
> printer not too expensive that works with YDL 6.2 and - possibly -
> PS3 GameOS 3.15 ? I bought a Stylus S-20, but it neither works with
> Linux nor with GameOS
As a former employee of Fixstars and huge fan of YDL on the PS3, I
offer this link with all due respect to both Sony and GeoHot:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/01/three-years-later-the-ps3-gets-hacked.ars
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Robert,
(bringing this back to the list as a resolve to your posted issue)
> I booted YDL 6.2 on the PS-3 on my normal user account, plugged in
> the new FAT32 USB drive, and it popped up on the Desktop. The other
> times I was in the root account. There are more icons on root than
> on my normal
On Friday 15 January 2010 07:38, Young-Min Park wrote:
> Don't call yourselves open source if it's not free. This is an
> outrage to everyone who as ever volunteered their time and
> expertise to open source projects without pay.
I recommend you review free download from the public mirrors:
http:
Robert,
> Anybody know how to format a usb drive for use by YDL 6.2? Also,
> can this formatting be done on a Mac or a PC?
My experience is as follows:
a) I have never found a USB drive, factory or consumer
formatting that YDL cannot read by simply inserting
and then doub
> I wish there was a way to find spammers like that and put a stop to
> them. really gets to me as you may have noticed. Again, my
> apologilies for the language I accidentally posted to this
> resepectable discussion group.
This is the first spammer to post to this list in 11 years. I would
not
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> Sorry, I tried posting to the list before, not sure if this will make it so
> I am mailing you directly as well. You can post this to the list if you
> want.
>
> Why don't you offer to take over the development of the bootloader?
>
> I personally want to see the PS3 continue as a viable and affor
Warren,
> Thanks, Kai, for a thoughtful response to my query.
You are welcome.
> It would have been
> nice if IBM put some pressure on Sony to keep the otheros option
> available, since it would seem to be in IBM's interest to keep some
> enthusiasm for the Cell alive among the "hobbyist" com
> In the cbe-oss-dev ml Geoff stated that they would continue to support
> Linux in the old models, so my question is: if they are already paying
> people to work on it, where is the added cost of allowing the new models to
> install them? Is the new hardware that different and they would have to
Nelson,
> > I believe it is a decision of economics, as Linux never _made_ money for
> > Sony. The PS3 itself was rumored to have lost money in the first year or
> > so, and who knows if it makes money now? It is games, and games alone
> > that make money in this cut-throat game box market. So con
dels are being removed from the channel?
Is this a way to continue Linux support, but on a more one-to-one basis?
Sincerely,
Kai Staats, COO
Fixstars Solutions, Inc.
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YELLOW DOG LINUX v6.2 OFFERS XFCE, USB INSTALL, EPEL, MORE THAN 600 UPDATES
LOVELAND, COLORADO, 29 June 2009 - Fixstars today announced the immediate
availability of Yellow Dog Linux version 6.2, delivering several updates and
improvements making it simpler to install, faster, and easier to use.
> It took some time to learn about what the processors used actually
> are. Turns out that they are ARM RISC chips; I'm imagining that they
> are close enough to the PowerPC family so that YDL could run on it.
> I could be very wrong of course, as I'm referring to web based reports
> which can be
On Thursday 28 May 2009 14:17, apoc...@hotmail.com wrote:
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Zhang,
> It says "All Applications Included on the DVD". Is that equal to "all
> apps available with the distribution"? I mean, even including the
> packages available on official package repository on the Inernet?
The "distribution" of YDL is defined as those packages we choose to include on
th
Sylvain,
> I'm in internship in a company which has bought a cluster (composed of
> 8 PS3 nodes and a G5 head all running YDL 6.0) to Terrasoft a few months
> ago.
>
> I would like to upgrade YDL to YDL 6.1 on PS3 nodes. I used:
> yum --installroot=/var/lib/yhpc/images/myimage update
> and it w
Zhang Weiwu,
> Hello. I am considering switching to yellow dog linux with my iBook G4.
> My choice of Linux distribution had always been heavily depend on what
> packages are in official package repository, because I am a stupid user
> who do not know how to (and don't want to) fight on command li
> I'm assuming (and this is an assumption) that you checked themacelite
> wiki before you purchased/acquired the card to verify that there is in
> fact a working PPC ROM for that model?
>
> http://themacelite.wikidot.com/wikidownloads2
>
> If the ROM for the X850XT from themacelite doesn't work, un
Joe,
> This seems to be working if I interrupt power while it is running (e.g.
> login screen) and then reconnect it. It is not working if I shut it down
> properly from the login screen.
>
> Any ideas?
If you shut down power properly, then you would require wake-on-lan to
power-on remotely, wh
Joe,
> We have several G5s running YDL in a server room. I would like to be able
> to turn them on and off remotely as the server room usually cannot be
> entered. Turning them off remotely is fairly easy but turning them back on
> is the tricky part as they do not seem to support BOOT-ON-LAN. I f
All,
> With my late 2005 iBook it has not been since much later
> kernels and Xorg releases that accelerated X11 has been available. In
> terms of YDL, the 6.0 release had a limited accelerated X11, but the
> big improvement came with YDL6.1 with a self-compiled kernel
> (linux-2.6.27.8 again).
Checking with my eng staff ...
> I successfully installed YDL 6.1, after hearing that the Atheros
> drivers were included. But scanning the wireless setup, I don't see
> the drivers. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Jeff Yowell
>
> On Feb 28, 2009, at 10:52
On Sunday 15 March 2009 14:49, Kevin McMahon wrote:
> Hello, I just upgraded my Pismo g3 500 to a G4 550. I just got the cd's
> for 6.1 and I cannot boot up from the install cd holding down the 'C'
> key and it just boots into the osx volume 10.4.11. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. From th
Yellow Dog and Cell Enthusiasts,
We have posted a set of instructions for installing IBM XLC/C++ and XLF with
Yellow Dog Linux on Cell:
http://us.fixstars.com/support/solutions/ydl_6.x/ibm_xl.shtml
http://us.fixstars.com/support/solutions/ydl_6.x/ibm_xl_fortran.shtml
--FSS Staff
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On Sunday 22 February 2009 12:26, Kevin McMahon wrote:
> Hello, I cloned and external drive and then lost the ability to get to
> the yaboot prompt. How can I get that prompt back again?
With what computer?
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Yellow Dog Enthusiasts,
We are pleased to provide an updated, more easily navigated series of pages
and links to developing code for the Cell processor:
Introduction
http://us.fixstars.com/products/ydl/devel.shtml
Commercial Tools for Cell
http://us.fixstars.com/
Patrick,
> I wanted to install YDL 6.1 on my PS3 and all in all there were no
> problems but I was not able to finish the installation because of some
> trouble and I'm not the only one with this trouble I think. Because of
> this I want to let you know that the Installation does not work with the
> By the way Kai, would anyone you know be interested in
> displaying a segfault message/warning in Latin? :-)
We're not going down that path :) --back to YDL ...
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Derick --Holy cow! If you were writing in the days where people were paid per
word, you'd be rich :)
> Yes, indeedy John, you got it. Keep in mind that the sources are the
> base release so that if you tweak or modify it to your needs you are
> pretty much working on your own. Also other things
> In my opinion, this will
> never change with PPC hardware, which is a tiny niche of a small
> niche. It would be nice if a PPC vendor like Fixstars could fix this,
> but they would need serious cooperation from the GPU manufacturers
> and that is likely not forthcoming (the PS3 linux disaster is
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Warren,
> Thanks, Derick. Yes, I am well aware of Ubuntu's lack of support of
> PPC. In my opinion, the Ubuntu community effort more than makes up
> for this. In the process of installing the OS yesterday, I had a
> number of problems and found (by several Google searches) an answer
> for every p
> BTW, any hint as to when is 6.1 supposed to hit the public mirrors? The
> announcement one month ago said "in one month". :-)
The public sync suffered a minor setback due to a misconfiguration. Resolved
now, and should be mostly complete. I know the ANL server is live.
kai
Yellow Dog Enthusiasts,
A warm greeting and wish for a happy holiday. Thank you for your continued use
and enthusiasm for Yellow Dog Linux. We have some exciting things in store
for the new year ... see you then!
Sincerely,
Kai Staats, COO
Fixstars Solutions
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