On 2/16/10, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/15/10 8:28 PM, John Musbach wrote: >> On 2/14/10, williamd<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 14 Feb 2010, at 08.52, Tim wrote: >>> >>>> I have a 700 MHz G4 eMac that I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on. >>> >>> I've been reading about Ubuntu but I thought anything past 6.01 or >>> so needed to be on an intel machine? Maybe I misread something? >>> >> >> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.10/release/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-powerpc.iso >> >> although I personally recommend yellowdog Linux >> (www.yellowdoglinux.com) with the caveat that I haven't used it for >> a while and I just checked their website and it seems it is now >> maintained by a different company so I'm not quite sure what's going >> on there. > > It doesn't seem like it's maintained at all. I just went looking and > many of the mirrors had the ydl directory but nothing in it. > > I was trying to run the software installer on my YDL 5 system and it > couldn't find the distro files, again the ydl folder was there but > nothing else. The company's web page links to those pages with nothing. > > The YDL 5 install I have is perhaps the buggiest linux I've tried. And > my B&W G3 isn't supported on YDL 6.
It used to be supported back when I was using it ~5 years ago and it was a great distro for my ppc macs back then. But a month or so ago I checked their website and it was completely unresponsive. Now it loads but is run by a completely different company who seems to have no interest other than to invest in the bandwidth and disk space to keep the website running and the isos hosted although the benefit of that is questionable because as you pointed out their repo and all the repo mirrors are now completely empty making the install impossible unless one happens to have previously mirrored the repo when it was functional locally. So sad, a shame to see such a nice and useful distro die like this. :( -- Best Regards, John Musbach -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
