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Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 Available for Download
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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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?
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.
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.