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Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 Available for Download

Posted by pudge on from the come-and-get-it dept.

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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  1. Re:Any experiences with Yellow Dog on iBook G4? by ElGanzoLoco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My sister just got new iBook G4, and for some reason she wants to learn to use Linux

    Okay, that's just my uninformed advice, but I *think* she'd be better off learning UNIX off OS X for starters...

    I mean, she can get accustomed to the shell, the basic UNIX apps (emacs, ssh...) the UNIX file hierarchy (/usr /bin /etc, etc...), learn some scripting, run X11 applications, and I think you can even install gnome on top of Darwin (not sure why you'd want to do that though).

    If it is really UNIX she wants to learn (and not linux in particular) then she has it right out of the box. If it's linux-linux, then start to show her how to use the terminal on OS X, which leaves you some weeks/months to choose the best distribution. :)

    As for linux PPC distribs... what I can say is that I tried to install Debian PPC on a standard G4, and that it didn't work out, even though I got help from a linux veteran.) Yellow dog is said to be nice, and there's supposed to be a gentoo PPC port too (?).
    I once tried to install yellow dog PPC on a performa (Old World, requires some tinkering). Got halfway through install and at some point it just put garbled the screen and displayed a fun message: "Kill -34 complete, you can now reboot." No need to say it couldn't reboot anymore :))

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  2. Re:Upgradeable? by IM6100 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I rarely encourage people to adopt an 'upgrade' path unless the OS vendor has gone far out of their way to make 'upgrade' a viable and rigorously tested process. (sorry, Microsoft). But really, if you were running a Linux system, all your user data should have been well compartmentalized and it should be easy for you to do an upgrade to 2.0.

    To be frank, if your critical business data was that disk-bound, you were taking a heck of a lot of chances as it is, the way you were running your system.

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