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| DATE | 2004-08-16 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Yellow Dog Bites Back
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Yellow Dog Bites Back
Apple announced the availability of OS X 10.3.5 on August 10. However, OS X
is not the only operating system that can run on the Macintosh, and on
August 13 (Friday the 13th) Yellow Dog Linux decided to bite back by
releasing version 4.0 RC2. YDL users were no doubt relieved - indeed, they
were starting to get rather anxious as approximately 11 months had lapsed
since the release of 3.0.1 (the current stable version). According to Yellow
Dog developers, the reason for the long delay had much to do with the
unsettled state of Red Hat/Fedora, upon which YDL is based. As regular
readers of DistroWatch should know, Red Hat has undergone major changes in
the past year, moving their product line into the commercial Red Hat
Enterprise Linux while spinning off the freebie download version into the
rapidly-developing Fedora project.
Yellow Dog Linux is a commercial product sold by Terra Soft Solutions, and
the latest version 4.0 is available for download through YDL.net Enhanced
(3.01 can can be obtained from free mirrors). Yellow Dog's drawcard is that
it is unique among Linux distros - it is the only one designed exclusively
to run on Macs (or more accurately, the PowerPC processor). Yes, there are
other Linux distros that have been ported to PowerPC (Debian and Gentoo come
to mind), plus NetBSD and OpenBSD, but only Yellow Dog has bet the ranch on
the Mac architecture. So far the bet has paid off, as YDL has been around
for five years now and appears to have the lead among Linux-on-Mac fans. YDL
4.0 RC2 will probably be the last release candidate - Yellow Dog developers
are predicting that they'll have the final stable release ready for
downloading in about another week.
This is probably as good a place as any for me to ask a question that has
been fermenting in the back of my head for awhile. I don't own a Macintosh,
but I am curious to know how the Linux/BSD experience on PowerPC stacks up
when compared to the Intel x86 world. For those of you who own both a
PowerPC and x86 box, what differences do you find when running Linux and/or
BSD on these machines? Any advantages/disadvantages between the two?
Inquiring minds want to know. And let it be stated that this is just a
question, not a troll - I've actually been admiring some of those
nice-looking iBooks and PowerBooks that I see in the shopping malls.
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