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Yellow Dog Linux Released

Posted by Hemos on from the new-g3-for-me dept.

bondo writes "Yellow Dog Linux, the new G3 Linux distribution is now accepting orders at www.yellowdoglinux.com. " Head over to check it out.

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  1. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    This is good to see. It's also good to see Apple promoting Yellow Dog LINUX on their website.

    Perhaps Yellow Dog will become the Redhat of the G3 PowerMAC's. (now there's a contentious statement--is that a good or bad thing?) I'd have to say that even their packaging appears to appeal to the artistic side in typical Mac customers.

    Now it remains to be seen what this "Yellow Dog Desktop" looks like. Couldn't they have used KDE or Gnome or something? Perhaps it's a MAC-ish desktop?

  2. Couple things. by Booker · · Score: 3

    1) Where's the download? I'm curious to see what's in the distribution.

    2) I noticed their "Gone Home" distribution - designed "specifically for home use." I think I like this idea, making a distro specifically for the home user. But then I think about it some more, and I like the fact that your standard Linux distro does whatever you want it to. ("It's a server!" *smack* "It's a client" *smack* "It's a server!" - sorry, Chinatown flashbacks...)

    I guess I'd rather see an install that gracefully handles a home user or a commercial/power user. I'd be disappointed to see anything start a win95/winNT-client/winNT-server type dichotomy (trichotomy?) in the Linux distros. Of course, you can add whatever capabilities you want after the install, so I suppose it's no biggie.