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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 :))

    --
    Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
  2. YDL and Debian. by saintlupus · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. 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.

    --
    A Good Intro to NetBS
  4. The YDL 2.4.22f kernel is patched against this vul by inchhigh · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  5. Yellow Dog is great for learning Linux by Canyon+Rat · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.