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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."
So, will there be extreme uproar and protest over YDL unifying GNOME and KDE, too, or will everyone have finally realized RedHat had a good idea?
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Why ruin a perfectly good system with Mac OS X and install Linux over it?
Sure I can see running this on an old PowerMac that Mac OS X doesn't support. But wasting your time/effort to wipe out a prefectly good *nix based system that you can actually buy software off a shelf in a store for (besides the 50 distros)
Just seems like a waste of time.
Now, the little BriQ device they have, sure, YDL would be cool on them. But to wipe out a new system with Mac OS X 10.2.x on it seems wrong.
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
I've been running Gentoo PPC 1.4 on my revision A imac (the original gumdrop-shaped one) for a couple of months now. It runs great, and I get the benefit of Gentoo's portage system. I'd recommend giving that a shot to anyone interested in linux on a mac. Plus you can frequent the #gentoo-ppc room and chat with gerk. He's dreamy.
"More organs means more human." - Zim
Perhaps I don't understand but the whole reason I purchased an iMac was to have the great OS and the suite of apps that came with it. The hardware is good but nothing that amazing and could be purchased on the pc side for a lot less money if all you are going to do is turn around and install a linux distro. Am I missing why this is a "Good Thing"?
Can you say "powerbook"? I don't think you can buy one without an OS on it for cheaper than you get an apple branded one...
You may think that there are equivalent ibm clone laptops, but alot of people like the design and performance of the powerbook and can't get what they want elsewhere...
Just because I doubt myself does not mean I find your position compelling.
bingo! last year i decided that the time had come to retire my 9600/233... this machine was a beast back in '97 (6 pci slots, 12 ram slots, scsi drives...) a shame to waste. enter yellowdog 2.2 and voila: a spiffy webserver!
2 1337 4 u!
Does anybody know if you can install YDL to run exclusively from an external firewire drive? I'd like to try it out, but don't want to mess around with partitioning my existing HDD. But, I do have an iPod and could use that as the harddrive for it if that is possible. Does anyone know if this sort of thing can be done?
"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."
Maybe Mandrake should follow this business model. After all, if they are hemmoraging money like they are, this would give a chance for at least some income without violating the GPL.
Proprietary just means 'controlled by a single vendor.' From 3M Floppies to Crucial RAM to Intel CPUs, you can't swing your tiny, emaciated dick in the computer world without hitting something 'proprietary.' Unless you can come up with a computer made out of iron ore and/or oats.
I dual boot with OS X. OS X is fun, but gentoo is much faster and more configurable.
how i installed gentoo: install
Oh, BTW, I run Debian. I don't see any reason for these specialized PPC only Distros, and I don't know why they make news. Why would I want a distribution for one architecture that's different from the distro on all the other architectures I run? Also, why would I want to wait the rediculous periods between yellow dog releases when I can just use debian unstable and have the latest and greatest daily?
Some people will "settle" for mostly latest but ultimately greatest, so that they get the stability they require and the beauty of an up to date system. Also, many computer users (most likely less experienced than you are) are looking for a simple installation that doesn't require an intimate knowledge of the hardware.
With YDL you get the simple installation of a RH-like distro and the power of apt-get to install and upgrade.
And last, thanks to an active user community, updates to YDL are coming faster and faster. This community is increasing in size and aggression as we speak. Go to irc.freenode.net and join #yellowdog to see what I'm talking about.
Is there an equivalent of Wine for running Mac OS X applications on Linux/PowerPC? How many of the libraries in Mac OS X have equivalents in Linux (how close is GNUstep to Apple's stuff, etc)?
GNUstep works okay with Apple stuff although there are some compile issues because of Aqua. Linux Journal has a neat article about this. You can view the TOC here
Well I wiped OSX and installed YDL as the former was just too damned slow to be usable on the 400MHZ G3 iMac. I've been using Linux on PCs for years (and I also use Windows as my main desktop, BTW) but the iMac was just a doorstop until I installed Linux. It's now a nice machine to use! I'm no zealot either - it just works for me - I'd never go back to OSX with that machine...
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
If you're not interested in running Linux on PPC hardware, fine, but don't be a dick about other people doing so.... Jeez...
FWIW, I'm getting a laptop to replace my workstation at the office, and I am considering getting a Mac laptop and running Linux on it, not because I want to "dink around with package installation, X configuration, and hardware compatibility issues", but to do work on. Why? Because Linux is my *nix development platform of choice, and Apple makes the best laptops around from what I can tell.
I've "dinked around" with OS X a bunch, and personally, I don't think it's all it's hyped up to be. Sure, it's great, but nothing to jizz over. For a *nix, I prefer Linux or FreeBSD.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Really? How fast does MS Office start up on it?
I've found Warcraft III to run somewhat slowly on my computer. Is it faster on Yellow Dog?
Escape Velocity Nova seems pretty zippy already. Is it really faster? Maybe it loads faster. I have to wait 5 or 6 seconds at the loading screen...
What about CarbonCopyCloner? I've had to back up some stuff and it seems really damn fast.
How about... oh, gosh, what to choose... oh, iLife! The iMovie integration with iTunes seems like it could be sped up a little. Will 'switching' achieve this?
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