I tried Yellow Dog Linux on my iBook G4 and although it installed easily, it didn't work well because the kernel was missing some extension to activate the cooler (of course, a friend told me, to download the kernel extension and recompile the kernel but... i must confess: I'm using Linux for years now, but still don't know how to compile a Linux kernel...).
Besides I didn't like the pre-installed theme and look'n'feel very much. I tried to install some stuff, but the package manager gave me error messages regularly and I couldn't compile a lot of apps since some packages were missing (good old Linux dependency hell;-P) that usually ship with any other distribution I tried (uhmmm, well I only tried SuSE Pro but I'm just pretending to be helluva Linux expert;-P).
In contrast to Yellow Dog, Ubuntu was another world. Easy-to-use, easy-to-install, easy-to-configure, great package management and cooler support.
My conclusion: I don't know about desktop Macs but if you want to use Linux on a portable Mac forget about Yellow Dog, use Ubuntu instead.
When it comes to the relation of how much disk space it needed and what functionality it provided with a default installation then it's one of the best Windows versions ever.
I liked it very much back then. It responded very direct and fast. All other Windows version I used since felt kind of slow, no matter what kind of hardware configuration they ran on.
Yeah, but as my history teacher once said: In the end it's all about the question: Who's got The Bomb? So even if my government (I'm from Germany) would reject software patents, sooner or later the US government will find a way to pressure us.
Regards,
Dennis B. Schramm
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Sorry, there's no online version of the article available.
Here's the paragraph in German, taken from c't magazine issue #14/2005, page 88:
"Als der BeOS-Erfinder Jean-Louis Gassee vor vier Jahren das Handtuch warf und seine Firma inklusive der Urheberrechte an Palm verkaufte, war das Original-Betriebsystem trotz aller Fan-Bemühungen zum Tode verurteilt. BeOS-Adept Bernd Thorsten Korz investierte trotzdem Geld und Nerven in seine Firma YellowTab, um ein Nachfolgesystem im Bündel mit aktualisierten alten sowie neu entwickelten Anwendungen auf den Markt zu bringen. Mittlerweile hält die 38-Mann-Firma sämtliche Rechte am Quelltext des ursprünglichen Betriebssystems und hat nach eigenen Aussagen annähernd 90.000 Zeta-Pakete verkauft."
That's in Englisch: "When BeOS inventor Jean-Louis Gassee quit four years ago and sold his company including copyrights to Palm the original operating system was doomed despite of all efforts of the BeOS community. Nevertheless Beos-initiate Bernd Thorsten Korz invested money and nerves in his company YellowTab in order to publish a BeOS-successor bundled with updated old and newly developed applications. Meanwhile the 38-man-company owns all rights of the source code of the original operating system and claims to have sold nearly 90.000 Zeta packages."
Since German is my mother language, I hope I didn't make too much mistakes;-)
Regards,
Dennis B. Schramm
Re:Do they have legal access to the BeOS source co
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Ars Technica on Zeta 1.0
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· Score: 5, Informative
A recent German issue of c't magazine says, that YellowTab already owns _ALL_ rights of the source code.
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I tried Yellow Dog Linux on my iBook G4 and although it installed easily, it didn't work well because the kernel was missing some extension to activate the cooler (of course, a friend told me, to download the kernel extension and recompile the kernel but... i must confess: I'm using Linux for years now, but still don't know how to compile a Linux kernel...).
;-P) that usually ship with any other distribution I tried (uhmmm, well I only tried SuSE Pro but I'm just pretending to be helluva Linux expert ;-P).
Besides I didn't like the pre-installed theme and look'n'feel very much. I tried to install some stuff, but the package manager gave me error messages regularly and I couldn't compile a lot of apps since some packages were missing (good old Linux dependency hell
In contrast to Yellow Dog, Ubuntu was another world. Easy-to-use, easy-to-install, easy-to-configure, great package management and cooler support.
My conclusion: I don't know about desktop Macs but if you want to use Linux on a portable Mac forget about Yellow Dog, use Ubuntu instead.
Regards,
Dennis B. Schramm
When it comes to the relation of how much disk space it needed and what functionality it provided with a default installation then it's one of the best Windows versions ever.
I liked it very much back then. It responded very direct and fast. All other Windows version I used since felt kind of slow, no matter what kind of hardware configuration they ran on.
Regards,
Dennis B. Schramm
Yeah, but as my history teacher once said: In the end it's all about the question: Who's got The Bomb? So even if my government (I'm from Germany) would reject software patents, sooner or later the US government will find a way to pressure us.
Regards,
Dennis B. Schramm
Sorry, there's no online version of the article available.
;-)
Here's the paragraph in German, taken from c't magazine issue #14/2005, page 88:
"Als der BeOS-Erfinder Jean-Louis Gassee vor vier Jahren das Handtuch warf und seine Firma inklusive der Urheberrechte an Palm verkaufte, war das Original-Betriebsystem trotz aller Fan-Bemühungen zum Tode verurteilt. BeOS-Adept Bernd Thorsten Korz investierte trotzdem Geld und Nerven in seine Firma YellowTab, um ein Nachfolgesystem im Bündel mit aktualisierten alten sowie neu entwickelten Anwendungen auf den Markt zu bringen. Mittlerweile hält die 38-Mann-Firma sämtliche Rechte am Quelltext des ursprünglichen Betriebssystems und hat nach eigenen Aussagen annähernd 90.000 Zeta-Pakete verkauft."
That's in Englisch:
"When BeOS inventor Jean-Louis Gassee quit four years ago and sold his company including copyrights to Palm the original operating system was doomed despite of all efforts of the BeOS community. Nevertheless Beos-initiate Bernd Thorsten Korz invested money and nerves in his company YellowTab in order to publish a BeOS-successor bundled with updated old and newly developed applications. Meanwhile the 38-man-company owns all rights of the source code of the original operating system and claims to have sold nearly 90.000 Zeta packages."
Since German is my mother language, I hope I didn't make too much mistakes
Regards,
Dennis B. Schramm
A recent German issue of c't magazine says, that YellowTab already owns _ALL_ rights of the source code.
Regards,
Dennis B. Schramm