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TerraSoft Releases YellowDog Linux 3.0
chriseh writes "For those of us who prefer Linux to the candydrop OS, good news! YellowDog Linux 3.0 has been released. For those who don't want to wait, you can get an enhanced membership at YDL.net and download ISOs directly. As per other releases, ISOs will be available to everyone/mirrors two weeks after the CDs have been on sale.Finally, I can run Linux on my 12" Powerbook."
extrarice amplifies: "New features include: Redesigned installer, a unified KDE 3.1/GNOME 2.2 desktop (both WMs share the same icons and menus), Kernel 2.4.20, and the usual package refinements/updates. More release info can be found here.
Note: ISOs are not available yet, and CDs are scheduled to ship in mid-April. I have been running YDL 2.x for about a year now, and it's a fast, stable distro."
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Is there an equivalent of Wine for running Mac OS X applications on Linux/PowerPC?
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Yes, it's called "Mac On Linux", available here.
Basically, it boots the MacOS on top of Linux, as opposed to emulation.
"Jesus saves, but everyone else in a 10 foot radius takes full damage from the fireball."
You're mixing concepts. Darwin is the open-sourced BSD-based core of OS X. That can be (note I'm not saying it is, but it can be) emulated pretty easily in Linux. The problem is when you try to do it with any of the libraries above Darwin, i.e. quartz. If you try to clone those libraries, Apple will hit you with a lawsuit so fast you'll wish you were being sodomized by Bill and Steve. The short answer is, no. No OSX apps for you.
Finally, I can run Linux on my 12" Powerbook.
The poster seems unaware that Debian can run on Apple hardware. Or should I be assuming that the user had tried to run Debian, but unique hardware had prevented it?
Posted from an ssh tunnel to a PowerMac 7600 upgraded to a G3 running Woody.
Yes, you are. (No offense.) There are many of us who have older PPC boxes around, that are just dying to have a lean, stable OS installed so they can be put back to use. Besides, YDL is a PPC hardware distro, not an Apple hardware distro. There are a variety of reasons why PPC hardware is preferable in general to x86 hardware. YDL fills an important niche.
Constitutionally Correct
No but booting MacOS over the top of Linux is not the same. Wine lets you run Windows applications without needing the original Windows code, and they execute as Linux processes that happen to have a weird binary loader and set of libraries.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
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Why ruin a perfectly good system with Mac OS X and install Linux over it?
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You don't have to. You can install the two side-by-side.
It's nice to have a modern operating system on hardware Apple has long-since abandoned (I have YDL 2.3 installed on a PPC Clone)
"Jesus saves, but everyone else in a 10 foot radius takes full damage from the fireball."
As YDL is based on RH, the uproar shouldnt be any more extreme than usual.
Pure plagiarism. If one's going to steal old articles, the least one can do is reference the original.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Ok, everyone needs to figure out that the "uproar" was NOT about having a unified look.
MOST of the developers were mad because they changed KDE _fundamentally_ - they made incompatibilities in the libraries. This had/has the effect of some programs not even being able to be compiled on red-hat - and most developers I know that use red-hat have recompiled their kde and kde_libs so they work "correctly".
The rest of the gripes weren't really grounded - most of the kde developers I know didn't care about how they made it look.
Derek
"Then I found that there was no colour in the shell, no vim, no bash, no multiple desktops."
Yeah, that's really too bad.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I'd say Yellow Dog is an excellent solution to pre-Blue & White PowerMac OS needs. OS X won't run on most systems made before that and even B&Ws, original iMacs, and iBooks system will run faster with Yellow-Dog than OS X.
You can use XPostFacto to install OS X onto many pre B&W Macs. OS X 10.0 and 10.1 will install onto a 604 based system; 10.2 requires a G3 or G4. I used XPostFacto to install OS X 10.0.3 onto my ancient 7600/120...mind you it runs like shit, but it is possible nonetheless. I also have YDL 2.3 on there, together with Mac OS 9.1 (which runs the best out of the lot of them).