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Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 Shipping
Durindana indicates this announcement of the newest version of Yellow Dog Linux, writing: "PowerPC fans, this is a big deal. YDL's certainly improved over its former state lately; hopefully 2.1 continues that trend. Does this make it the "best of class" (Mandrake's favorite term) for PPC?" There are at least four strong Linux-on-Mac contenders now, which is nice to see.
People who want a cheap, lightweight notebook (iBook), without having to use a "proprietary" OS, which has the cavet of "locking in" people to an OS. Not that I'm one of them, as I'm posting from Mozilla in OS X.
Burn Hollywood Burn
If you want unix on your Mac PPC system just get OS X. If you want something free get Darwin... if you want free and your system isn't supported get NetBSD.
In my mind BSD is the best choice for a UNIX system... stick with the system that has inovated for TCP/IP networking, stick the orgianl apache platform, stick with the team that writes code correctly the first time, stick with the side that dosn't steal code. Stick with a side that doesn't support richard stallman
I picked up a Pismo (Powerbook G3 firewire) strictly with the intent of putting GNU/Linux on it. Why, you may ask. Because it is the operating system that I want and need, on hardware that I never have to worry about a hardware problem, something not supported on the hardware level, it has Ethernet onboard, the display is great, and it is an elegant chipset, with tons of power to boot. My 400 gives any 550-600 depending on systems specs a run for its money. Plus, how many of you have a glowing apple staring out at everyone when you are working on your laptop. OSX is not an OS that I can get behind. It is proprietary, does not run the software I need to run, and is slow as a dog going uphill in the middle of winter with molasses booties on, at least on a 400 with 128 megs of ram. Plus OSX's interface is not something that I care for. For those who like it, great, but E is for me. :) In the end, it is all about choice, right? Great RISC hardware, OF implementation, all good things.
One Token Ring to Rule them All, One Search Engine to Find Them, One WAN to bring them in, and TCP/IP Bind them...
i (unfortunately) purchased 2.0 which was horrible, once i finally got it to install. 2.1 should be mailed out to 2.0 customers free.
i will agree with other posters though, linux on ppc is a great way to recycle older macs. linux runs pretty snappy and turns older machines into excellent file/print servers.
OLD MACS NEVER DIE, THEY JUST RUN LINUXPPC!!!
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I for one need to test my software on Linux Systems. Yellowdog makes this possible on my TiBook. Its also fast and not as irritating to use as OSX when installing software- especially software designed for Gnome or KDE.
Your question perhaps is why somebody would choose one or the other. However Yaboot allows multi-OS booting on Mac hardware. At boot time I can choose OSX, Linux, OS9, or a CD as my OS of choice. Its pretty awesome and impresses the hell out of people :-)
If I have seven piles of shit, and two piles of gold, are you telling me that you'd choose the seven piles of shit -- simply because there's more of it?
No sig is worth reading.