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Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 Review

Posted by michael on from the see-spot-run dept.

Patrick Mullen writes: "The Duke of URL has just posted its review of Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 - Linux for the PowerPC. The review covers installation, the interface, YUP (their own apt-like update/install tool), benchmarks of PPC VS. X86 and much more."

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  1. One little mistake by Erik+Hensema · · Score: 5

    I decided on doing a make vmlinux because Yellow Dog didn't come with anything to make bzImages out of the box.

    (b)zImages are x86 specific, AFAIK none of the other platforms Linux supports has zImage. A (b)zImage is needed in x86 because of the memory modell (only 1M adressable of which 640 KB usable in real mode) and the weird boot/partition scheme (come on! A 512 bytes bootsector and partition table in one?)

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