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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. Quit Complaining About RPM by texroot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apparently this has to be repeated continually for some people to get it:

    Yum and Apt4RPM are to Apt as RPM is to dpkg.

    All the "RPM sucks" comments are stupid. RPM does fine at what it is made for, as does dpkg. RPM does not manage dependancies, that's why Yum, Apt4RPM and the like were developed.

    Now one can compare Yum, for example, to Apt, and that is an apples to apples comparison. Such tools are available to do the same things as Apt, and while the quality of the tools and repositories aren't as mature as those for Apt they're improving rapidly.

    But it's just ignorant to complain about RPM and compare it to Apt or Portage.