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Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the here-boy dept.

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."

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  1. A load of old Tosh by SpooForBrains · · Score: 4, Informative

    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).

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  2. java 1.4.2 for PPC by zdburke · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Corelation by colinleroy · · Score: 4, Informative

    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)

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  4. Re:Mac on Linux by Quobobo · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.