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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. Any experiences with Yellow Dog on iBook G4? by MrHanky · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My sister just got new iBook G4, and for some reason she wants to learn to use Linux, which means she wants me to teach her. I'm normally a Debian-guy, but I'm not sure I'd recommend her to use Woody (it'd have to use backports of XFree86 and more), and Sid is like a boot with a built-in shotgun for newbies, and Sarge is an annoying peace of slush.

    So maybe Yellow Dog is an option. However, I have no experience with it (I don't own any Apple hardware), and it seems to lack support for the Radeon 9200 in the iBook. Is this something I can expect to see RPMs for soon, or will I have to wait for the next release to get proper support for video? Any other problems with the distribution?

  2. Re:The recent Debian attack... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yellowdog is based on Redhat. How will an attack on Debian's servers have any effect on Yellow Dog? It won't.

  3. Not Critical by waldoj · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    I can see that I was unclear. I only mentioned that I had just started my first (bootstrapped) business to indicate that I was poor. :) Christ, no, I didn't host anything important on an iMac sitting on a desk in my apartment. :)

    The Yellow Dog Linux server was just for my personal SMTP (not mail storage) and websites (nothing exciting or crucial), plus a handful of MP3s and the like in my home directory. All told, it was about a GB of stuff that I'd have to somehow get off of this USB-only iMac (/var/log, etc, and home, I imagine) and back onto a new system, and I literally could not find a single method of doing so. Not only were USB hard drives quite uncommon, but they were also well beyond my financial means (the cost of the x86 that I ultimately bought), and I'm not even sure that they would have worked under YDL 1.X, anyhow. It was simply easier to bail on YDL than upgrade.

    -Waldo Jaquith

  4. Interesting... by scottblascocomposer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's odd to see this just now, considering that I downloaded 3.0.1 weeks ago. Does nobody else around here use YDL, or it just the first time anyone submitted?

    Weird...

    --
    To reign is to serve.
  5. YDL compared to others by BibelBiber · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I still used 10.1 cause I couldnt affort Jaguar I thought it might be somehow useful to have instead a up to date Linux. I remember my old PC days when I ran Suse on my machines and everything was fine and easy to install and configure and use. Okay I thought same should apply to Apple hardware. But everything I tried kinda failed from the first minute. Gentoo run really smooth but updating on an iBook 500 was just to much. 2 days compiling for KDE and Xfree was too long, Mandrake was kinda messy with its firewall and sometimes didnt exactly do what I told it to do. Then I tried YDL. Worst part in my Distro checking. Absolutely no configuration possible. No easy software updating. At least nothing as easy as I used to know under Suse. So I finally got my Panther and have Fink installed. No more Linux on my partitions.