2011-12-03, 06:44
My feeling all along was that it would be better on linux than OSX , however I do not see anyone here that has indicated success. One post said it "sucked" after he finally did get it working, specifically on a Mac Mini. Truth is I bought the Mac Mini to play around with thinking that XBMC PPC was in the PPA . Turns out all of that PPC support spoken of is only on the highly constraining OSX . There is a whole thread here devoted to Linux PPC development that I recall is at least a few pages long. If it is so easy , why then has it not been done?
I mean really I am not looking for someone to do things for me so much as to understand why there is so much contradictory information. Why would I think I would have success with my limited linux knowledge where others have failed? That is if they truly have tried and failed. I am not a programmer and far from it. Hell I could not even make it into a deb file or create a PPA if I had success, as I dont know how to and would surely want a way that I could pass it on to others, and use it again later for myself, if I was successful.
Also I have No desire to mess around with unstable versions. I know that seems to be the thinking here at present but there are warnings here that the nightlies are considered "unstable" and if you want stable stick to 10.1 . On top of that I have confirmed three times now that XBMC 10.1 does not install on a clean install of OSX 10.4 PPC . There appears to be a permissions issue on folders or files that are created at first run. Work around? INstall the nightly , run it , exit it (if you can), delete from Applications then install the 10.1 version.
Correct me if I am wrong but on the Sheva Plug that is a distro designed for that architecture. Have a look at what some of these guys are running XBMC live distros on (not the official XBMC Live bit others) For example Ubuntu 8.10 . Development is continuing through Ubuntu 11.x on PPC platform and I doubt it will go away and if it did Ubuntu 10.10 will work for a couple of more years on these old PPC macs. even if one has to stick to Dharma.
I mean really I am not looking for someone to do things for me so much as to understand why there is so much contradictory information. Why would I think I would have success with my limited linux knowledge where others have failed? That is if they truly have tried and failed. I am not a programmer and far from it. Hell I could not even make it into a deb file or create a PPA if I had success, as I dont know how to and would surely want a way that I could pass it on to others, and use it again later for myself, if I was successful.
Also I have No desire to mess around with unstable versions. I know that seems to be the thinking here at present but there are warnings here that the nightlies are considered "unstable" and if you want stable stick to 10.1 . On top of that I have confirmed three times now that XBMC 10.1 does not install on a clean install of OSX 10.4 PPC . There appears to be a permissions issue on folders or files that are created at first run. Work around? INstall the nightly , run it , exit it (if you can), delete from Applications then install the 10.1 version.
Correct me if I am wrong but on the Sheva Plug that is a distro designed for that architecture. Have a look at what some of these guys are running XBMC live distros on (not the official XBMC Live bit others) For example Ubuntu 8.10 . Development is continuing through Ubuntu 11.x on PPC platform and I doubt it will go away and if it did Ubuntu 10.10 will work for a couple of more years on these old PPC macs. even if one has to stick to Dharma.