Yellow Dog Linux 2.2 Released

Posted by pudge on Wednesday March 27, 2002 @03:23AM from the free-as-in-cheeseburger-today dept.

Gatton writes "Terra Soft has released version 2.2 of their Linux distribution for Apple hardware known as Yellow Dog. According to the website, a few of the features are: Red Hat 7.2-based system, 'ext3' graphical migration program, XFree86 4.2.0, KDE 2.2.2, Gnome 1.4 w/Nautilus & Evolution, improved modem & printer support, improved support for nVidia GeForce2 MX & ATI Radeon--including ADC digital. No ISOs, only SRPMs on the ftp site at the moment. Presumably it will be available for download soon." I bought two previous versions of YDL, but this time I am just going to download it, as I don't use it enough to warrant buying it, now that I primarily use Mac OS X as my "other" OS. And, darnit, I want to download it now.

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Re:I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-27 12:55 · Score: 1, Interesting

We're running something like 30 sites off a 180mhz 604e based machine. It's running a faster SCSI drive (and controller) than what's "built in" but otherwise it's stock. OS X won't even install on this machine. I don't think OS X Server will install on this (and it's $800).

I've got a better question - why would you run a server on OS X? Linux is always going to be faster (no Aqua overhead). I'm running OS X on my laptop (Ti 550 ) and it's great but I wouldn't want it on my server. Netinfo has been a bit of a pain (probably because I'm not familiar with it) and Apple's documentation is lacking.