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Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the fine-new-pet dept.

lyberth writes: "Finally after almost too much waiting Yellowdog Linux has released the newest linux distro for the wild and wonderful ppc platform. An awsome new installer, support for most of the new mac hardware, and the first distro to include Xfree 4 for the ppc, as standard makes this pretty sexy distro. The press release can be found here."

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  1. Re:GPL? by tuffy · · Score: 5
    If the source code is included with the shipped distro, Yellow Dog is not required to make it available for download. Remember, the GPL is not internet-aware and only requires that sources accompany binaries without further restriction.

    In this case, all it'll take is for one person to buy it and upload the sources in order to effectively make it downloadable - which is what the GPL ensures. But Yellow Dog doesn't have to do that themselves if they don't want to.

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    Ita erat quando hic adveni.

  2. ironic by jchristopher · · Score: 5
    Their page says "Why YDL 2.0? Wanting to spif up that PowerBook 3400? How about serve email from your 7200?"

    Yet both those machines are on the "unsupported" list.

    It's interesting that the place where Linux is most useful - older hardware that needs a new life - are frequently the machines that YellowDog won't run on. Is anybody actually going to run out and buy a new G4, with MacOS X included... and then put Linux on it? If you're shopping for new stuff to run Linux, would you even consider PPC hardware? The reason to buy a G4 is to get MacOS, otherwise, what's the point?

    YellowDog would be great for putting those old 7200 era machines to work...but it won't run on them!