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Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the walking-the-dog dept.

eobanb writes "I finally wrote a somewhat in-depth review of Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux 4.0. It's basically a PowerPC port of Fedora Core 2. The good? Pretty modern software, and setup is a snap. The bad? RPM sucks as always, and there are a few too many things that are broken out of the box. Linux PPC; it's a niche-within-a-niche, as I heard one Slashdot comment call it, but it may well be worthwhile if you're annoyed by x86 hardware."

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  1. Or.... by elid · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    but it may well be worthwhile if you're annoyed by x86 hardware

    ...more likely if you already have a Mac lying around. Just out of curiosity, why would you be annoyed at x86 hardware?

    1. Re:Or.... by kronchev · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      That's like saying "Macs suck, I used an LCII and it was total crap". Remember, one of the many reasons PCs are superior to Mac, is that you don't have the nice fascist system of a single manufacturer.

      Good job. Now try using a real PC, and report back.

    2. Re:Or.... by Nasarius · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      That's not an x86 issue though. That's just Dell having a junky laptop built (and maybe Windows using too much power).

      Wrong. x86 is an aging, bulky CISC architecture. ppc is a leaner RISC-based architecture. This is one of the reasons that Apple laptops get about twice the battery life of PC laptops - ppc processors simply consume less power.

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    3. Re:Or.... by b-baggins · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      AMD and Centrino notebooks stay cool because the chips get throttled down.

      I have a 1.33 GHz PowerBook G4. I ran it for four months before I even heard the fan come on, and that includes running it docked with the lid closed. At the current moment, my cpu temperature is 36.8 degrees C. My laptop is docked with the lid closed and I've been using my computer for 90 minutes solid. The fan in my system is NOT running.

      Tell me again how your AMD runs so much cooler and quieter. I always enjoy a good laugh.

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  2. Torrents by Yonder+Way · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    For those of you that can't RTFA, the torrents are here:
    http://cvs.terraplex.com/~owen/ydl4_torrents/

    Download early and often.

    The reviewer was a whiny kid that tried comparing OS X to Linux, and then pitched a fit because he like Debian & Gentoo better than Red Hat but YDL runs like Red Hat. Boo hoo. The review didn't really say much worth reading.

  3. I'm certainly annoyed by mslinux · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hate efficient, inexpensive, fast x86 hardware that I can buy anywhere in the world at a fraction of the price of PPC hardware. It justs so annoying to have all of this commodity hardware so readily available everywhere I turn... so damn annoying.