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macemoneta writes "Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 is now available for download, and includes HFS+ support with the 2.4.22-based kernel. Be nice and use a mirror!"
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I was a die-hard YDL user from day one, buying copies from Terrasoft to support the company and even preordering 2.0. Imagine my surprise when I found that it was simply impossible to upgrade to 2.0.
They told me that I would have to back up my machine, wipe the hard drive, install anew, and then copy my data and configuration back over. I had just started my own business, and the system in question was my first Apple (and only computer at the time), a Rev. A Bondi iMac. With only USB ports and virtually no USB devices out there at the time, I didn't have any method of copying data off of the machine. Sure, it would be good practice to upgrade in the manner prescribed by Terrasoft, but for somebody like me, running a simple home SMTP and HTTP server, it ought not be required.
I never did install YDL 2.0; the discs are still sitting in the box. I saved my pennies and bought an eMachine for $300 a couple of months later. I'm still using that machine as my basic home SMTP and HTTP server, and I haven't used a Mac as a server or run Linux on a Mac ever since. The iMac lives on in the home of my brother and his wife, running OS X.
I've been looking to run Linux on my G3 iBook and my G4 Powermac, and I've tried Gentoo and SuSE thus far. I've been considering Yellowdog, but I'm not going to get back on that train if I'm just going to get screwed. Does anybody know if Terrasoft has cleaned up their act, and is now making it possible to upgrade between major releases?
-Waldo Jaquith
It should work fine, as X will most likely use the radeon dri module. I personally dual boot Gentoo on my iBook, but when I tried out Yellow Dog on it, it was awesome. Yellow Dog is just like Redhat ported to PPC and a little yellow dog instead of a red hat.
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Probobly because that is what it is .. RedHat ported to PPC
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Sure. But it seems to be as old as the last Knoppix PPC. Come to think of it, since XFree86 4.3.0 has been out for quite some time, and doesn't support Mobile Radeon 9200, Gentoo would be the safest bet. XFree86 4.4.0-RC1 came out just two days ago, and Gentoo will be the only distro to support it for some time(I installed Gentoo on an SGI Indigo^2 a couple of days ago, and noticed there was some support for PPC in the pre-releases of XFree86 4.4.0. 4.3.0 still isn't in Debian Sid!). Apart from the live CD, Gentoo is far from the most newbie-friendly distro out there, though.
I tried to do a minimal install of Yellow Dog 3.0 a while ago. On the very first apt-get dist-upgrade, there were unresolved dependencies. I hadn't installed anything except the bare minimum off of the install CDs, and the tree was already FUBAR. Anyone else seen this happen?
Anyway, I ended up using Debian/PPC on the iBook instead. So it doesn't really matter. But YDL seems to be pretty easily broken if you choose anything but the "all that and the kitchen sink" option from the installer.
--saint
Now what you want to do is use a reliable mirror. The yelowdoglinux connection is notoriously baddddd.
g ill.ca/ydl/iso/g /isoi nux.co m/pub/yellowdog/isoh /mirror/yellowdog/iso / ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/yell owdog/iso
http://ydl.oregonstate.edu/iso/
http://open.mc
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/yellowdo
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.yellowdogl
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.c
ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/yellowdog/iso
ftp:/
I think, therefore I am...I think.
The post should have been "YDL Linux now available for download through Enhanced.net, the YDL paid webspace/support/membershipthingy service."
If you want to download for free, there are many good mirrors available. Just go to the linuxhelp website (this page has links to all iso's out there for every distribution available) which is btw an excellent starting point for newbies like myself...
I think, therefore I am...I think.
Because it was a bug in the kernel and wasn't specifically affecting one distro.
YDL already responded to this vulnerability by backporting the changes from 2.4.23 to 2.4.22. If you are using YDL 3.0.1 with the kernel marked 2.4.22f, you don't have to worry about this particular exploit.
I recently help my friend install YD on his G5. I went off an article in Linux Format mag, (issue 39 or 41, if you can get it).
The partitioning and formatting was a little different than on an x86 but, after that it was very similar to Redhat. Not surprising considering that YD is based on Redhat.
Good luck.
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rsync -v --progress rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/yellowdog/iso/yellowdo g-3.0.1-sirius-20031118-install1.iso .
rsync -v --progress rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/yellowdog/iso/yellowdo g-3.0.1-sirius-20031118-install2.iso .
rsync -v --progress rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/yellowdog/iso/yellowdo g-3.0.1-sirius-20031118-install3.iso .
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The post indicates what's new - the 2.4.22 kernel, and particularly what's of interest to Apple users - HFS+ support.
Normally, I wouldn't have bothered with a 0.1 release this minor, except that the lack of HFS+ support for Mac users was a significant interoperability problem that has now been addressed.
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I've been looking for a *nix to run on an old 7200 that I got for free, and was about to settle on Debian.
YDL runs pretty well on one of those. I have a 7200/120 sitting under a desk in here somewhere that I was running YDL 3.0 on for a while.
BootX is an undocumented pain in the ass, as I recall, but aside from that it works fine.
--saint
I think Yellow Dog is a great Distro for learning Linux, mostly for non-technical reasons. It's a small distro that still has a sense of community. The lead developers can be found answering questions on the newbies list.
Newbies leaning Linux are also well served starting with a Red Hatish distro because that's what they will encounter most out in the world.
YDL also supports RPM, Apt-Get and Yum as package management tools so you can learn to master them all from one distro. Yum actually migrated from YDL to Fedora. I think it's the least painful package management system this side of OS X's drag and drop.
Been running YDL 3.0.1 on an iBook 2 (the nice looking white ones, not the crappy clamshell) for some time. Right out of the box it did everything I wanted it to...the buttons raise/lower volume, it goes to sleep when I close the lid, etc etc. Being a Gentoo user on my x86 I am used to the wonders of emerge and the equally wonderful wonders of compiling from source, so no programs have thus far been a program on my iBook. Everything from gaim to mozilla I've just grabbed the tarball for, let it compile, and have been presented with no problems. This is definitely the way to go for PPC Linuxin'.
The vast majority of "Linux" that people want to learn has nothing to do with Linux itself, but all the OTHER stuff that comes with a distribution; ie: editors, programming, web/mail servers, etc. You can do all of that on a Mac with OS X and the developer tools installed. Jaguar now even supports some of the APIs from Linux, making even more Linux-only software compile without alteration under Darwin (the Unix core of OS X).
Install OS X, and Fink and she'll have all the Apple GUI goodness, drivers for all the hardware, and all the power and flexibility of the Unix system under the hood (bash, sendmail, vi, perl, etc).
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However, in your sister's situation, I'd install fink on the machine. Fink is a port of a good portion of the Unix programs in Linux, and it uses apt-get for its manager. It's very Debian-like. Plus you get to keep OS X.
There's also a couple of other fink-like ports out there, but they're all in the process of merging.