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Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors
Morganic writes "After checking periodically for the past couple days, I noticed that YDL 3.0 has hit the mirrors, a day early (in fact, the page above still says it's not available, but the mirrors at the bottom are carrying it). Anyone got a BitTorrent?"
"Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors" ....Just what Yellow Dog Linux needs, 7 years of bad luck for each mirror broken.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Very nice!
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Love conquers all... except CANCER
They probably haven't made the release public because they want the mirrors to catch up. Now that you've told the world about it, the mirror sites have to compete with users trying to download it.
Just curious.
I understand the concept of BitTorrent, but is it a faster download or is it just being nice to Terra Soft's poor little mirrors?
I downloaded it last night, though I've run into problems installing it.... I manage to get 98% done and the installer crashes. Grrrr
"Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors" ...a handful of people rejoice! :-)
"Derp de derp."
I have 3 macs at home, two of them running OSX and 1 running YellowDog. As fait would have it, I uninstalled YDL last night from the last machine. I probably wont bother with it again until I can boot it from a firewire driver (without having to re-part my primary)
Apple hasn't done anything to prevent any other OS from booting on the new machines; it simply isn't updating Mac OS 9 to support them any longer. Nothing sinister, nothing crippled, no "blocking".
That said, Yellow Dog Linux supports machines as the team has the chance to add such support. It already supports, for instance, the 12" PowerBook and the Xserve family. They may be a little behind the latest product introductions, but support will always be added.
have any of you bought this and have been using it? it was released for purchase a while ago. i tried 2,0 a while ago on my g4, it was slow. i want to use this on an 8500av but worry that itll crawl. also my av input/output card (apple's AV expansion card) isnt supported so ill have to stick with MoL to use it. but im sick of running 8,6 on it and want a modern OS. any feedback, esp on older machines.
I want 2D games back.
I have an ATI Radeon 8500 and I am still waiting for support. Until then I will continue to only use OS X.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is a choice for evil.
I'm asking this to provoke some answers rather than trying to be a troll, but why would someone want to use a linux distro on a mac in the age of OS X?
hoser: Slashdot reader since 1987.
Why is there a need to run linux on PPC?
OSX already had BSD layer beneath it, with the terminal, and the interface is much more appealing to the user.
Why would someone install linux on such expensive hardware?
tia
All, I don't want to jack up my OS X installation on my iBook. Can I install this on my iPod and boot from it???
OS X runs on any iMac, ever.
Just be sure to upgrade to at least 128MB of RAM, and probably more if you can afford it.
I have older PM 6500 and Imac Rev B that can't run Mac OS X (not supported, not enough RAM, not enough CPU power).
Sir - please don't spread misinformation, especially in a post marked 'informative" (and being informative indeed in other aspects). So far all iMacs are "supported" for the latest version of MacOS X - please check the official Jaguar requirements. It's only a a matter of adding RAM, but that's not really that expensive. You are right, of course, that the GUI would crawl on this graphics card, but
(a) I don't think it's a big problem on a machine running, as you described it, a "headless server"; Darwin can be boot up this way as good as Linux
(b) I honestly doubt whether KDE or GNOME would fare any better on this machine.
OS X runs on any iMac, ever.
Nope, on my RevA iMac it boots, then crawls but never runs (with 160 MB of RAM).
It runs quite smoothly (but I still see the Beach Ball of Death at least once an hour) on my 400 MHz iMac DV, of course the 640MB of RAM help but a faster drive would help too.
Don't forget to think different.
Is there somewhere where it is possible, to download a minimal YDL installer (to save bandwidth).
It's for an old powermac (7200)
I've got a PowerMac 400/GbEthernet with 448mb ram, and Jaguar works perfectly. I can even play some of the newer games on it (only 16mb Rage Pro). It was pretty expencive in the day but it still runs perfectly.
:)
The beachball of death sounds like a pre-jaguar problem, and I would think things would look abit better with jaguar onboard.
Ofcourse, if you already have jaguar installed then I'm just plain wrong...
Be like the twenty-second elephant with heated value in space-Bark!
Won't win any speed awards but I use it as a server and my daughter plays her games on it in Classic (she's 4, no need to discuss frame rates)
"Form should follow function...unless it's just plain ugly."
Ofcourse, if you already have jaguar installed then I'm just plain wrong... :)
I'm afraid you are, both run 10.2.5. Maybe they would run it faster if they had faster hard drives.
Don't forget to think different.
Just remember, you can use apt-get to upgrade to v3.0 without having to download all the ISOs and such if you have a working 2.3 install.
(In fact, I installed 3.0 a couple weeks ago by doing this -- just add the new apt repositories for 3.0 to your sources.list file.)
--saint
I have an older 'Sawtooth' G4 and I'm considering a Radeon 8500. I didn't know YDL doesn't support it. Thanks for the info, that definitely is cause for me to rethink this.
Do you notice a big improvement over the old Rage cards on OS X thanks to 'Quartz Extreme'? None of the sites I've researched talk about the real-world performance gains of this card.
Watch out!
YDL 3.0 will trash the partition map on one of your hard drives if you have more than one.
You can't fix it unless you install YDL, which is not very easy, since YDL installer is quite crash-prone while it's busy trashing your hard drive!
Forget ydl, it's way too mandrakeish for my tastes. Grab Gentoo linux ! It might be slightly harder to setup, but it's way better. Customized precisly for your needs, faster, and once you try the "emerge" command, you can never go back! :)