hi there,
here is short review of an YDL 4.1 installation on PB G4 Alu:
It seems to be a really good release. no trouble at all while installation or booting and a user-friendly installation process. In comparison to the 4.0 release there are some major improvements:
- backlight support
- USB devices are still alive after the sleep mode
- sound works out of the box
Good work Terrasoft! It comes to my mind an article of germans Linux User magazine, I think published jan. 2006, about installing Debian on an PB G4 - kernel compiling and no end, only to run a basic system. trouble at almost every stage....
For me, it remains only 2 big topics to resolve:
1. the keyboard isn't really good usable - above all I can't access the ALTernative characters. pressing the ALT key with another has no effect. I'm using 105-key generic layout (german) - tried several possiblities in KDE Controlcenter..
It's really annoying when programming (brackets,pipe,the curly braces...
does anyone have solutions for this?
2. sometimes the Funcitons Keys (brightness,volume,backlight control) are not longer working
/etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd status reports that is has still an PID but the service is not longer running.
but, generally spoken, it was worth waiting for the 4.1 release
best regards, harald[/list]