First Beta Of Mandrake Linux 8.2 For PPC

belbo writes "On Friday, an article on MandrakeForum announced the immediate availability of the first beta of Mandrake Linux 8.2 for PPC. Apart from the features of the upcoming 8.2 release for i586, this beta offers network installation via AirPort, an AppleScript wrapper for passing parameters to BootX, a patched 2.4.17 kernel, support for 1394, support for Radeon/Riva cards (via XFree 4.2) and more." Great news. I run Yellow Dog Linux for PPC boxes, but am still waiting for a good Linux for PPC release that does everything well, and out of the box. Maybe this is the one?

Comments

Yeah, cool, but-

[Dark Paladin]

I have to say that I'm impressed with what Mandrake has done. I've always believed that they're the best "desktop" Linux distro I've used - plenty of software, simple to use (like setting up a NAT - takes 5 minutes under Mandrake, took me 2 weeks under Redhat).

But after having had my Mac for 2 weeks, and basically unplugged my Linux box after I threw samba, imap, postfix, DarwinX, Gimp, etc on the Mac box, I have to ask if I'm all that interested in the Mandrake Linux now.

Well...not really. Perhaps if I was going to run G4 box as a pure server, then I'd consider that idea, but otherwise, I have everything I need. (And even then, I'd have to consider just what kind of server I was running that I'd want to switch from OS X).

But I think it's great that Mandrake is doing this anyway - there's always people who simply want to run Linux on whatever platforms they want, and if nothing else, it keeps Mac (and everybody else) on their toes to keep innovating.