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Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors

Posted by pudge on from the cute-and-fluffy dept.

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?"

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  1. Changes... by icemax · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yellow Dog Linux version 3.0 is Terra Soft's most recent release which offers a completely rebuilt Installer, 1300 packages on 6 CDs (3 Install, 3 Source), a unified KDE and GNOME desktop environment featuring shared menus, applications, and user interface. With enhanced support for the latest ATI and NVidia graphics cards (full 3D support for the ATI Radeon series), "video issues" are a thing of the past.

    Very nice!
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  2. Re:Is Bit Torrent faster? by mhesseltine · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?
    It's a bit of both. Because you are sharing up/down bandwidth with other users, you may find that you can d/l from 5 people each @ 200Kbps, for a d/l of 1Mbps, which may be more than the one mirror can handle. Also, since the downloads come from peers, it does reduce the bandwidth necessary for the mirror to provide.

    For more info on BT, visit the official BitTorrent site.

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  3. There's nothing "OS X-only" about them by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors by jeblucas · · Score: 3, Informative
    "Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors" ...a handful of people rejoice! :-)
    That's kind of unfair. YDL is just about the only hope for users of some older Macs to keep the machines interesting. My 225MHz PPC Performa 6500 is looking forward to it's life as a MAME box.
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  5. Re:Newbie question. by ramdam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mac OSX only runs on modern mac with lot of RAM (read 256+) and good video card.

    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).

    I've installed YellowDogLinux 2.3 on both, it just works ;-)

    I don't feel the need to upgrade to 3.0 since they are used headless, as servers not as desktop.

  6. Re:Yeah, it's out by BrookHarty · · Score: 3, Informative

    iso 3 is bad. Seems to be bad on all mirrors.