Users experience with MOL. (Was: Still stuck with MOL...)

[Eric Dunbar]

Luc Robitaille a relation of yours?

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:24:36 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > I'm still trying to get MOL working with the latest kernel.  I'm
> > > following the same instructions in the wiki that worked so flawlessly a
> > > month ago.  I have the latest kernel headers installed.  I get as
> > > running 'rules build' and then there are some errors generated that I
> > > don't think should be there.  Output follows:
> 
> I'm starting to investigating possibly switching from a x86 based
> architecture to a PowerMac one, and I have to say that MOL looks very
> attractive to avoid the semi-regular rebooting our family have to do
> on our machine to switch between Ubuntu and Windows for all sort of
> reasons and applications.  But I'm unsure if the reality is that close
> to the sales pitch I have seen on their web page for MOL.
> 
> So is there any positive experience of Ubuntu users using MOL, either
> on Warty or Hoary?  It seems the only comments I have seen on the list
> are about people having  problems compiling various modules needed by
> the software; and the length of the wiki page seems to imply that it
> is not a simple process just to get it running under Ubuntu.

Under Warty I had MOL running without any extra fiddling (except I
didn't want to re-install OS X just to get OS X to boot... the OS 9
installer CD would boot but I didn't want to futz around with my
"real" OS).

Under Hoary I haven't gotten MOL working. Of course, all I did was
select it in Synaptic and got unresolved dependencies (didn't bother
compiling anything). You should keep in mind that Hoary is a
development OS which means that such things won't necessarily work.

If you're not absolutely married to Ubuntu, I suggest you also check
out YellowDogLinux for PPC (alas, if one suggests the reverse on the
YDL lists one unfortunately might get flamed by one  sensitive
individuals). It's a PPC-only distro which means they focus far more
on PPC-specific problems than any cross-platform distros can (&
they're a FC2 (very late in the development cycle so  stable)-based
distro if that matters to you).

Eric.