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Subject:    Re: [novalug] Which distro for PPC
From:       Matthew Fite <mattfite () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-10-30 12:00:46
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I've liked YDL 1.2.1 on my dual G4/400 AGP.  I skipped
2.0, but YDL 2.1 is coming out "Real soon now" (if not
already) and it should feature a 2.4 kernel out of the
box.

Also, I *really* like the name and the logo :)

What I like about YDL is the 'yup' facility to
automatically update packages.  It's like apt-get for
Deb.  Also, the maintainer of the altivec compiler rpm
package used to work for TerraSoft, and I felt they
were more aligned with altivec development under Linux
(There black lab linux has this support out of the
box, although pricey) than other distros, but that's
just my perception.

No experience with LinuxPPC or Mandrake, but I'm
starting to really like OS X 10.1.

matt
--- Doug Dougherty <dougd@snoofer.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm about to install Linux on a Mac G4 and was
> wondering what 
> distributions people were using and if there were
> any compelling reasons 
> to use one over the other.
> 
> A quick look at penguinppc.org and I see the main
> distros are Debian, 
> Mandrake, SuSE, and Yellow Dog.
> 
> I'm leaning towards Debian or Mandrake; didn't care
> much for SuSE when I 
> tried it last (too much German) and have never tried
> Yellow Dog.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the feedback :-)
> 
> -- Doug
> 
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