<quote who="Adam Hewitt"> > I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was > thinking "why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so > cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?"...I am beginning to feel myself > being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly to a bug > zapper...its so mesmorizing... > > My question is has anyone compared YDL with a debianPPC install and what > kind of results did you get? At heart I am a great debian fan, I run > debian on my PC at work, my two servers at home and my desktop at home > (although not for long...I need my games :( )...but the though of > installing a distro that was made for my ibook has me interested (that and > the fact that it comes with apt-rpm installed and configured by default > aparently)...
If you're already a Debian user, you'll almost certainly come back to it after trying YDL. Not because YDL is a bad distro - it's essentially Red Hat for PPC, and customised really nicely to the Apple hardware range - but you get used to the sheer breadth and depth of binary packages available for Debian; no need to rebuild lots of things from src.rpms... I recently helped a friend through the process of getting his iBook, using Mac OS X, then Mac OS X with Fink, then dual booting with YDL, then dual booting with Debian, then scratching OS X to run Debian with Mac-on-Linux. Now he's happy. :-) It's so much nicer running Free Software on a Free OS. ;-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Broken hearts rarely come with "Some Assembly Required" stickers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
