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TerraSoft Releases YellowDog Linux 3.0

Posted by timothy on from the go-fetch-boy dept.

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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  1. Re:Running Mac apps by extrarice · · Score: 4, Informative

    [quote:]
    Is there an equivalent of Wine for running Mac OS X applications on Linux/PowerPC?
    [/quote]
    Yes, it's called "Mac On Linux", available here.
    Basically, it boots the MacOS on top of Linux, as opposed to emulation.

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  2. Re:Why would I want this? by ChristTrekker · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. Redundant by Tehrasha · · Score: 3, Informative

    As YDL is based on RH, the uproar shouldnt be any more extreme than usual.

  4. Re:Bravo by tuffy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pure plagiarism. If one's going to steal old articles, the least one can do is reference the original.

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  5. Re:Unified desktop by friedmud · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  6. Re:As I've asked before. by daeley · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Then I found that there was no colour in the shell, no vim, no bash, no multiple desktops."

    Yeah, that's really too bad.

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