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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."
Unless, like me, you use PearPC, which works like a charm
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That is not entirely true.
;-)
I, for one, do not quite like the inerface of MacOS or OSX. But when I get the opportunity to buy cheap hardware, I would not like to let it pass.
Often, cheap Macs come off for sale on the university's mailing lists. In such cases, I find it easier to just buy these and install Linux on them. It's also easier for me simply because it's an interface I'm quite familiar and comfortable with.
I'm sure there are quite a few users like me out there. Not to beat the looks I get when I show Mac fanatics ppcs running Linux - and besides, a Mac looks cool
Other than that I generally agree with this comment.
Another thing speaking in advantage for Linux on Macs is that MacOS X just won't run with usable performance on older Macs, and MacOS pre-X is an abomination and not an option, IMO. Granted, YDL/Fedora Core are pretty hefty GNOME/KDE based distros, but they still get away with less hardware grunt than MacOS X, and as for Linux in general there are leaner PPC distros (here is a rather new example).
BTW...
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Does anyone know of any equivalent to MOL that runs on OS X? I would like to be able to run beta releases of OS X, old versions of MacOS (for games) and various UNIX distributions (which I often need to write about) on my PowerBook without rebooting or resorting to VirtualPC (which, as of version 6, didn't boot Fedora Core 2. I don't know if version 7 does).
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I've been in the market for a new laptop just now, and I looked long and hard at the PowerBook 12", but in the end, the lack of wireless support made me go elsewhere (a Panasonic "Let's Note" in fact).
It's a shame; the hardware is quite nice, otherwise.
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The $150 isn't what stops me from trying something like Yellow Dog. It's the lack of vendor software builds such as Oracle, Sybase, etc.
As a developer, I can get free/cheap developer kits on x86 Linux or Windows from any major vendor. But when it comes to POWER, SPARC, or other OS's you need to buy everything, if it's available at all.
That really is a shame -- especially the limited AMD64 support in some cases.
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Actually I am awaiting a G-5 Ibook to run YD.. What I have seen from YD I am impressed. I am a long time RedHatter so I feel at home with YD. I really like the contribution they have made to the hell of packagemanegement with YUM, it is, IMHO, the only reason why RH9.0 users have been able to migrate their systems to Fedora without a major problem (that of RHN being unavailable). Don't get me wrong, I like OSX and the Aqua gimmicks are cute but I am an old dog and I chew my bone on KDE...
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I got through the YDL website and just found out that : Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 offers 32-bit support for USB-G3s, G4s, G5 Power Macs. If I decided to buy a G5, I would expect it to work in 64-bit mode, not just in 32-bit mode. Some kind of strange since the G5 64-bit instruction set seems to be working with Linux. I found at IBM DevelopperWorks how to set up a 64-bit mode (Y-HPC Kernel), but it still seems to be beta...
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A) What performance increases am I likely to see running YDL (real numbers, not "OMFG it is liek teh fastest")?
B) Never having used Mac-on-Linux, would I really be able to squeeze YDL and MOL onto my measely 20 Gig drive? I currently only have a couple gigs left, but that is mainly due to installing fink and darwinports to get linux functionality. What is the performance of MOL? Better than VPC performance I would hope (since there is no endian conversion).
I'm just a little leary of wiping my iBook, which is my primary machine, to install YDL if I'm not going to see a significant performance gain and cannot reasonably run my Mac apps when I need to.
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The changelog of recent Mac-On-Linux releases show that the developer is moving toward a release that will build and run on both Linux and OS X. The latest development snapshot compiles cleanly on 10.3, but fails to run (perhaps it's just my inexperience that prevents it from running). I've seen reports in the Mac-On-Linux mailing lists that other users have gotten Mac OS 9.1 to run in MOL on OS X 10.2.