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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:Has it's place... by mr_don't · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, actually, this is a great niche for YDL.

    I have also witnessed YDL 3 turn throw away g3 macs into stable, useful desktop systems, running firefox, snappy word processors like ABIWORD, and things like XMMS and Mplayer for multimedia.

  2. Bootx... by vwjeff · · Score: 4, Informative

    In order to run Linux on "Old World" hardware you need an application called Bootx

    http://penguinppc.org/~benh/

    In order for it to work you need a Mac OS installed on the computer. On the beige G3's I have installed it on I usually set it up like this:

    OS 8.1 installed on a 100 MB partition.
    Install Bootx as an extention.
    Install YDL using the remaining HD space.
    All is good.