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Terra Soft Releases 64-bit Yellow Dog Linux
Kai Staats writes ""With Tiger 'unleashed' in 48 hours and even Microsoft caught-up in the 64-bit wave, we give into peer pressure and release this interim set of ISOs. A compilation of our work to date as we move toward the early summer release of v4.1, Yellow Dog Linux v4.0.90 is built upon eighteen months in-house and customer experience with 64-bit," states Kai Staats, CEO Terra Soft Solutions."
Yellow Dog Linux runs on the PowerPC architecture, which would be Apple hardware.
"You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older."
Features http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/ydl.shtmlp hp?submit=ydl#ydl
Purchase http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/purchase.
from TFPR:
"Exclusively available to YDL.net Enhanced members v4.0.90 may be downloaded immediately from www.ydl.net"
So...I think you have to be a member to get to the ISOs.
Nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained -Tom Baker, Doctor Who
Most of linux is optimized for x86 it seems. I'm under the impression that gentoo and numerous other distros just simply recompile & repackage their x86 isos for PPC... and the Terra Soft goes through and optimizes all the code for PPC and makes sure all the Apple hardware works perfectly. They bundle a good product. I had it running on my Powerbook at one time.
[insert lame joke here]
If you RTFA, you'll notice this:
"Yellow Dog Linux v4.0.90 is built upon eighteen months in-house and customer experience with 64-bit"
It's been in Y-HPC since Y-HPC was released back in November at SC2004, and was in the _old_ (YDL 3.0.1 based) G5 beta ISOs available to YDL.net Enhanced customers since last year.
IIRC you can buy a premiere type membership and get downloads of software before the average schmeddly.
But Terrasoft's huge business is in reselling Apple hardware. For example they've sold hardware and software to Lockeed-Martin and they also sold 260 XServes to the US Navy http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/08/07.8.sh tml
OS X:*nix for the real world.
YDL.net is a fee based support network. It also gives users webspace, webmail, and early access to files, updates, etc. You also get preferential service with YUM updates. If you use their main servers for YUM, it does not work very often because the servers are smoking. If you have a YDL account you can get a back-door ftp account to another server that seems more robust and stable...or perhaps I'm the only fool paying for this service. I like to reward their efforts and I'm not a starving college student anymore, so I pony up the funds for what I take.
Why doesn't anything interesting happen when I have mod points?
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Well IBM makes those processors, why not file under IBM? Or better yet under Linux or something?"
Have you even been to TerraSoft's site? Because if you had, you'd notice that they're an exclusive Apple reseller for Macs that come pre-loaded with Linux.
Nothing to do with IBM, btw, except for the G5s.
Read more details here.
Wireless works through Mac-On-Linux which is included. Onboard sound for Non-G5 machines at the moment (mini onboard sound doesn't work at the moment either). Sleep function works now for laptops.