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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. Er. by rplacd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. Yeah, it's out by yummyporkproducts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I downloaded it last night, though I've run into problems installing it.... I manage to get 98% done and the installer crashes. Grrrr

    1. Re:Yeah, it's out by apemn88 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yep...downloaded at 22k/s, burnt it, and it crashed just before finishing. Anyone got this to actually install? I'm running dual 1.42, Radeon 9000, gig of RAM....

  3. Re:Why bother? by Eagle7 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I cannot stand the UI in OS X (I am too attached to X Windows, with X style copy & paste, multiple desktops with edge flipping, and sloppy focus). And the OS X mouse driver sucks - the acceleration (AFAIK) is horrible and not adjustable, and none of the third party utilities for it have made it usable enough for me.

    That, and after 6 or 7 years, I just understand and am comfortable with Linux.

    Not that I don't think OS X is a good and/or capable OS, and that some of the iApps are really slick. But being comfortable with the UI is #1 with me, and I just can't get comfortable with OS X's UI. Really the only think I miss running Linux on my iBook (read: have to boot into OS X for) is playing DVDs on my TV. And Flash I guess. Other than that, it's perfect.

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