I have YDL 4 running on a 6500/250, just fine, 603e chip. There's ALL sorts of documentation on the internet on how to do this.
The REAL problem is no FLASH player for ppc. --- Derick Centeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill, you have my sincere compassion. > > Although, Cian's recommendation is something I would normally just > agree > with, I cannot do so this time. The problem is the design of the > Mac > 8500 itself. It was constructed with a 604 chip. You can see the > details here: > > http://macspeedzone.com/archive/html/hardw/by_mac/apple/a/8500_150.html > > This is not the only problem, unfortunately Bill, for you it does > get > worse. There is an old article where Kai Staats, the CEO of TSS, > is > interviewed discussing many details including which Macs YDL 4 will > work > with. Here is that link: > > http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/34647.html Also, I truly believe you quoted him out of context, so here is the quote verbatim. "We have chosen to no longer officially support the beige G3 product line -- my personal favorite for its incredibly robust offerings. This does not mean it will not work -- simply we will not apply internal resources to test these systems. We had to draw the line to focus on quality over quantity." Not OFFICIALLY supported... This does not mean it will not work. > The section of the interview of interest in this discussion is > here: > > Mac News World: ... will YDL 4 run on ancient Macs that cannot take > > advantage of OS X? > Staats: ... Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 ... supports USB-G3 through dual > G5 > Power Mac Towers. ---whole bunch of stuff snipped--------- Norberto "still running YDL on a 6500/250 and a beige G3" Quintanar __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
