Andreas writes "Apple users could be glad to know that YellowDog Linux 4.0 is shipping. As always, Terrasoft, YDL producer, is selling PowerMacs with YDL pre-installed. Soon we could see ISOs available for free downloads, as in the past."
Re:An honest question.
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wandazulu
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I have an original clamshell iBook with 64meg of ram...far too small in terms of resources, I found, for OS X. Linux (specifically YDL 3) ran acceptably on it and am able to do a lot more with it than what I could do under OS 9 (ironically, a lot of stuff that winds up running on OS X). Gnome doesn't run *great* on it, but it's acceptable. Plus with YDL it was easy to configure the Airport card in it, so I can sit anywhere and use it.
I think you'll find most people run Linux on older macs to revive and get some more use out of older hardware...I wish I hadn't thrown out my 68k-based Mac so I could try NetBSD on it.
I could also see where someone might have a very specific need to run in 64-bit *now*, instead of waiting for Tiger next year; then a G5-specific Linux kernel like YDL 4 would fit the bill.
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I have an original clamshell iBook with 64meg of ram...far too small in terms of resources, I found, for OS X. Linux (specifically YDL 3) ran acceptably on it and am able to do a lot more with it than what I could do under OS 9 (ironically, a lot of stuff that winds up running on OS X). Gnome doesn't run *great* on it, but it's acceptable. Plus with YDL it was easy to configure the Airport card in it, so I can sit anywhere and use it.
I think you'll find most people run Linux on older macs to revive and get some more use out of older hardware...I wish I hadn't thrown out my 68k-based Mac so I could try NetBSD on it.
I could also see where someone might have a very specific need to run in 64-bit *now*, instead of waiting for Tiger next year; then a G5-specific Linux kernel like YDL 4 would fit the bill.