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  1. Re:Better drivers and licensing please on Linux GPU Performance · · Score: 1

    Mandrake also offers nvidia 3d drivers, not in the download editions but in powerpacks (and discovery), and mandrake move..

  2. Re:Mac on Linux on Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    From Mol's user's guide:

    By default, mol uses network address translation (also called masquerading) and a virtual ethernet network (tunN) to provide the client OS with network access.

    So i don't think that's possible (although it was a very good idea, maybe suggest it to mol developers..)

  3. Re:Linux on PPC? I'll take OS X on Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    There are on problems with software, because Debian and Gentoo both have very good ppc support (and think that no other distro has so much avaiable packages as these two), and yes xine, mplayer, firefox , and so on, all works..
    About drivers you've got the same problem as in linux x86 there's no support for the latest hardware (wireless, and so on), nvidia doesn't make linux drivers (i think it's apple fault because nvidia says that the ppc platform is apple responsability, maybe they have some kind of agreement), ati also don't make drivers, but the dri project has 3d drivers for every chip until 9200 (this means the lastest ibooks still have 3d)..
    About libraries, i never had any kind of trouble (maybe you have special needs, but i don't think there will be any kind of problem).

  4. Re:Mac on Linux on Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Mac-on-Linux is not like VMWare on x86!! VMWare emulastes an entire x86 machine, while Mac-on-Linux allows direct acess to the hardware by OS X (or some kind of PPC Linux flavor) run inside of it. This is very important because it makes Mac-on-Linux much faster (there is almost no lost of speed)..