Quoting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <snip> > Any comments?
I'm running yellowdog linux on my ibook which I got a couple of months ago. Getting the graphics card working with the version of X in debian at the moment (xfree4.2) requires some work, whereas with yellowdog it was a put the cd in, click a couple of times and you're up and running kind of thing. I still plan on getting debian running (reasons below), but I might wait for xfree 4.3 to make it's way into sarge. Yellowdog is fine (it's basically just redhat rebadged for PPC). It's full of pointy clicky goodness, it supports all the hardware out of the box (I think the tv out might not work, never tried it though), it has quite a lot of up to date software distributed with it, it looks pretty polished. The installation was flawless, the only thing I had to do was switch on acceleration for the video card (which again was clicking a box, very easy). Has apt-rpm, mac- on-linux, lot's of groovy stuff. Basically it's like all the commerical linux offerings now, very polished and pretty easy to install. The only iritation I've had with YDL is getting packages. apt-rpm is fine, but if the packages don't exist then it's not that useful (not that this has happened a lot, the majority of things are available). I've actually had to install a couple of things from source again which after using debian for awhile is really annoying :) Not YDL's problem though really, just smaller user base, and people like me complaining rather than packaging software. Cheers...Steve. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
