Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 review

lotion writes "MaximumLinux.org has posted it's take of Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 on a PowerBook G4: "My distribution of choice was Yellow Dog Linux from Terra Soft Solutions. Adam and I had the opportunity to speak a bit with the co-founder and CEO Kai Staats of Terra Soft Solutions at the MacWorld Expo in NYC last month and I must say I was impressed. Not only was I impressed with there 2.0 release but there new hardware that they had rolled out that day as well.""

Comments

Config

[be-fan]

I love the part where he kicks himself for taking 3 hours to figure out how to configure his TrackPad. The funny part is, that it would take ANYONE 3 hours to figure it out. That's because all normal OSs put all that configuration stuff in one place (be it a GUI panal or a tree of config files). Of course, all Linux distros have to be "special" so they all have different ways of configuring things. Still wondering why Linux hasn't taken over the world yet?

Re:Who cares?

[waltmarkers]

Hmm, let's see what we have here. It seem to me like someone wants to start up the 'ole OS wars again. Let's just point out a few of the merits of YDL 2.0:

Fact: Not everyone likes BSD, some people just prefer Linux.

Fact: Another OS for the PowerPC Arcitecture is a great thing to se released and updated, if x86 has no compitition what makes it improve?

Fact: OS 10 and 10.1 have hefty sytem requirements that some computers just don't meet, I can still use YDL on my old 603e chip which is somewhat old school.

So, basically, this keeps everyone on their toes, the Linux people now havew to give the mac a serious look before dismissing it simply because it's am mac. The mac people have the option of using Linux in adition to every other OS on the mac. And Apple has to keep OS X development going strong becuase they don't have an OS monopoly on their systems. And all those people with macs can upgrade to the latest version of YDL, we just can't use off the shelf linux you know, silly single architechure kernal.