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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. ....7 Years of Bad Luck! by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors" ....Just what Yellow Dog Linux needs, 7 years of bad luck for each mirror broken.

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  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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....

    2. Re:Yeah, it's out by dadragon · · Score: 2, Informative

      Late-2001 iBook. Works fine, but my first attempt at burning install1 didn't work so well, it crashed at 11%.

      Next try was to re-burn install1 on a higher quality CD and it worked fine. It's reminds me of the descriptions of the latest Red Hat, but with mac add ons like pbbuttonsd and the like.

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

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

  5. Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors" ...a handful of people rejoice! :-)

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    1. 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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    2. Re:Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors by jeblucas · · Score: 2
      at purpose will linux on a Mac serve now that you can run most OSS apps in OS X?
      Personally, I'm not sure. For me, Mac OS X is what I want in an OS. A well-supported configured OS with access to Open Source software. Some folks will always want the utmost in customizablity that comes with a flavor of Linux, and want to put it on the sexiest hardware of all time, hence the persistent existance of Linux on Mac.
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  6. 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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  7. 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.

    1. Re:There's nothing "OS X-only" about them by dadragon · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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".

      Don't be surprised if a third party enabler for OS 9.2 on the new PowerBook or any other new machine. The mac community likes their OS 9. I only use it for the original Unreal, but everything else runs fine in Classic.

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  8. Why bother? by hoser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?

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    1. 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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    2. Re:Why bother? by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Heh, ya couldn't see this one coming a mile away...

      Some Linux die-hards buy Apple laptops because they are the nicest laptops around. These people are just really into Linux, so they don't want OS X.

      Another major use is for older computers. Pretty much any OldWorld machine is going to be too slow to enjoy OS X. Throwing Linux on these machines can extend their usefulness. They can be used as fileservers, routers, mp3 players, etc. Some people also use them as their main desktop, although I personally think Mac OS is just fine for older computers.

      However, I think it is rather foolish to run Linux on newer Apple hardware. OS X is just too uber-cool. Besides, the only thing I've found that runs on Linux but not on OS X is MOL, but amazingly I've gotten by so far without it. ;) But to each his own, and if Linux users want to buy Apple hardware, I'm glad they are supporting my favorite computer company.

  9. Re:any reviews by Durin_Deathless · · Score: 2, Informative

    To my understanding there was a bug in 2.0 that made it crawl. 2.3 was really snappy for me on a G3/300, as alway YMMV

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  10. 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.

  11. All iMacs are supported by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 2, 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).

    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.

    1. Re:All iMacs are supported by ramdam · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You're right Mac OS X's "officially" supported (I knew that, sorry for having generalized).

      However, the idea I tried to outline is still valid. On older macs , installing Linux may be a better investment than Mac OSX:

      (1) On such computers Mac OS X is slow, even after upgrading memory, there's still bottlenecks like bus speed, slow CPU, slow I/O, while linux can accomodate itself of such low-end config. Sure, as you say, KDE and Gnome should be avoided, but twm for example run correctly. On the other side, we cannot change the window manager of Mac OSX.

      (2) They have not very standard memory extensions and it's not that cheap to upgrade (when it's possible) them to a point that you can use Mac OS X without pain.

      Regarding Darwin, I don't know much but may be it's an alternative for server use. I haven't chosen it, because at that time I didn't trust him enough and used Mac OS X as a development platform only.

      By the way, my imac is "really" headless because the screen is dead (THT problem, I was told it often happened on this model). I had to borrow 6500's monitor to do the Linux installation. (Hopefully, The internal video connector in the iMac was the same - DB15)

    2. Re:All iMacs are supported by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 2, Informative

      You're right Mac OS X's "officially" supported (I knew that, sorry for having generalized).

      However, the idea I tried to outline is still valid. On older macs , installing Linux may be a better investment than Mac OSX:

      To clarify: I didn't question the general idea, I was just in mood for some anal nitpicking ;-). Indeed, Linux seems to be the best way to run anything unixish on Macs from last century. What REALLY makes no point to me is running YDL on a brand-new Mac. If you are really zealous on open systems, don't launch them on proprietary hardware; if you aren't, there's nothing wrong with MacOS X.

  12. Re:OS X runs on any iMac; just upgrade to 128MB RA by Virus1984 · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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  13. Mirrors? by saintlupus · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.)

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