Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 Released

worm eater writes "On September 29, Terra Soft Solutions delivered the final release of Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 to their CD manufacturer. It is currently available for download by ydl.net subscribers. Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 is built upon Fedora Core 2, offering both KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.6.0 desktops with an all new presentation for both the Installer and post-installed desktop environment. Expanded USB support includes many cameras, printers, adapters, and storage devices. FireWire support is now built-in with bootable FireWire made possible through manual configuration. Mac-On-Linux offers the ability to run Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X and now offers automatic network configuration."

Comments

Mac on Linux

[kuzb]

It should be noted that Mac-on-Linux still doesn't run on i386 hardware - so if your goal is to run OS X or some other OS made for PPC, most users will be out of luck.

Re:Mac on Linux

[fum]

Mac-on-Linux on PPC is like VMWare von x86. As far as I know there's no goal to run on x86.

Re:Mac on Linux

[deathontwolegs]

From Mol's user's guide:

By default, mol uses network address translation (also called masquerading) and a virtual ethernet network (tunN) to provide the client OS with network access.

So i don't think that's possible (although it was a very good idea, maybe suggest it to mol developers..)

Re:Mac on Linux

[Quobobo]

Amusingly enough, it should also be noted that Yellow Dog Linux doesn't run on i386 machines either. So, no, I wouldn't say "most users will be out of luck" when this is a story about YDL.

Re:OT for Mac/Linux users but inquiring minds...

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.scribus.org.uk/

A load of old Tosh

[SpooForBrains]

Toshiba. Good line of laptops, with support for pretty much everything bar their proprietary SD card readers. Even 3D with Nvidia (proprietary, yes, closed source, yes, working ... yes).

Re:Linux on PPC? I'll take OS X

[geniusj]

You're quite simply.. wrong.. The powerbooks either come with an nvidia geforce fx or a radeon mobility. I personally have a mobility 9600.

java 1.4.2 for PPC

[zdburke]

YDL 3 and 4 didn't ship with a usable Java distribution, but IBM offers a great 1.4.2 version one here: https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/lxdk/lxdk-p.

Re:Corelation

[colinleroy]

No linux kernel supports Airport Extreme. Blame Apple for their choice of a proprietary Broadcom chipset. (you can also blame Broadcom if you prefer to do so)

Final release

[HBI]

I don't get the impression from reading Terrasoft's site that this is the last release of Yellow Dog, but reading that article text certainly gave off the impression. Might want to edit that a bit. "Final master for YDL 4.0" perhaps?

yellowdoglinux.org

[Anonymous Coward]

I have started yellowdoglinux.org to create a forum for yellowdog users. Right now it is simply a forum, but there will be future expansion. I would like to invite novice and experienced linux users to join.

http://yellowdoglinux.org/forum

Re:64 bits ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Afaik yellowdog is planing to come out with a fully 64-bit distro in the near future. If you want a 64-bit Linux on your G5 right here right now you should look into gentoo. (Maybe there are also other options, but I know that gentoo offers a full 64-bit linux)

Re:Airport EXTREME

[Anonymous Coward]

I highly doubt that even Driverloader will allow win32 drivers to drive Powerbook hardware.