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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. Re:Yellow Dog 3 on an Old PowerPC = great by DirePickle · · Score: 5, Funny

    And as fast, too! I kid, I kid.

  2. Apple Hardware Compatability should be easy. by Photar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux distros specifically for Apple hardware should work really well since Apple's got a lot less hardware that you need to worry about being compatable with. That said, I can't get audio working on my 6500 :/

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  3. Re:Or.... by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would you mind repeating that a little louder? Someone a block over is using a G4 "mirrored door", and their fan kicked in just as you were speaking. =)

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