 | Dec 21 2008 |
HOTFUSION Does Yellow Dog support booting from a Mirrored RAID Array yet? I realize that is more of a question for the Yaboot developers, but this is one of the reasons that I use Mac OS X on my Home Server instead of YDL. Other than that, YDL has always been a great consumer OS, so long as you don't attempt to tinker a lot. Out of the box it works great.
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| Dec 21 2008 |
SATO iMac G5s (iSight) don't seem to get on well with Linux; they won't take Ubuntu and now, after downloading the 3.7GB YDL 6.1 iso file, I can't get past the load screen. Have installed a double boot Ubuntu on a Compaq (Win XP) and done a CD Ubuntu boot on a MacBook, so it shouldn't be me, or is it?
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 | Apr 28 2007 |
NSTANOSHECK I love YDL 3.0 on my old 3400c PowerBook, but was not the biggest fan of 4.1 and switched to Ubuntu for a while, but once Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 came out I switched back and was happy as a clam. YDL 5.0.1 really seems more modern and a much better release. Linux is different and can be hard, but please be sure to use the forum, the mailing lists, and the online help. There is even a book you can buy from Terra Soft Solution! Give it a full 2 weeks to try it out using the numerous support options available and you too will most likely fall in love with this free OS called Yellow Dog Linux. Strong rumours say that most PowerPC Apple Macinstosh Computers will not be supported after Mac OS X 10.5, so this is the future for all PPC Mac owners.
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| May 3 2007 |
NSTANOSHECK I meant I was not the biggest fan of 4.0 but when 4.1 came out it fixed all the issues and I switched back from Ubuntu to YDL for good.
(Version 5.0.1) | |
| Oct 15 2006 |
JKXZDF I've used this for a couple days and was not pleased... have been using Ununtu ever since.
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| Apr 28 2007 |
NSTANOSHECK Too bad for you, Ubuntu canceled the PPC version of their OS. Personally I preferred YDL 4.1 to Ubuntu but Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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| Mar 24 2006 |
D0CTOR Well, good stuff, but: 1. How to get an update if you are on 4.0.x version? BTW, version 4.0 is absolutely free (just your traffic) 2. I ran it on my PB G4 1GHz, Mac on Linux was a problem, did not find my embedded airport card 3. Yep, not that fast at all... 4. Ubuntu is a good alternative anyway (and free and with an easy update)
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| Mar 24 2006 |
BILLKLEE I believe MOL is incompatible with 10.4.
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| Nov 16 2005 |
STEVE working fine on my G5. love it (still prefer apple's osx unix though). :p
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| Jun 19 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Best Linux for PPC.Looks like all us ppc users will be running this when apple stops supporting the ppc macs.Great OS thogh if you have a new world mac.
(Version 4.0) | |
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| Jan 19 2005 |
ANONYMOUS has anyone had any luck installing this with a 8mb ixmicro twin turbo graphics card?
(Version 4.0) | |
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| Jan 1 2005 |
GORD NICKERSON You can install YDL 4 on older equipment. Just requires a bit more work. The target machine was an 8600 with 256mb ram, 200mhz 604e and 4gig HD. 1. Used mac drive setup to partition the disk into 400mb HFS parition for os 9,1 a 700 mb swap parition and the remaminder an ext3 parition. 2. Installed a minimal 9.1 and took out everything not needed. 3. Downloaded and copyied Bootx to control panel and ramdisk.image.gz and vmlinux.2.6.8-1.ydl.y to linux kernels folder in system 4. Set bootX parameters to use ramdisk.image.gz and set ramdisk size to 65000 and did NOT save prefs. Choose Linux and machine rebooted into Anaconda install 3. Choose personal desktop install with manual partition. Replaced kde w gnome 4. Choose /dev/sda8 as the / mount point 5. Set up eth0 as DHCP and root user 6. Error message - partition map has no partition map entry was displayed but clicked fix and install continued. 7. Once all the packages were installed Anaconda crashed with an unhandled exception error - 'bootload has no attribute macosx' caused by the fact this is an old world mac 8. Restarted system into macos, ran bootX and entered /dev/sda8 as the root partition and SAVED the prefs, choose Linux and machine rebooted 9. Booted into text mode and logged in as root. 10. Changed directory to /etc and issued command vi innittab and changed the runlevel from 3 to 5. Gave reboot command and X login screen came up Set up samba, network printer etc. Once the special effects are turned off by choosing a minimal theme it runs not too bad considering the age of the machine. Being able to run a modern linux at all on an old mac is quite a achievement. For newer equipment OSX makes sense but i found it's performance on a G3 500 is about the same as YDL 4.0 on 604 200. Next, i'll try YDL on a G4 powerbook to see how it fares. BTW there are rpm binaries for YDL, such as Firefox. You can also exit the gui and use it as an X server by typing X -query host or X - broadcast.
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| Jan 22 2005 |
GORD NICKERSON Just finished installed YDL 4.0 on a wallstreet 292mhz, 8gig, 192mb ram.
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| Dec 26 2004 |
ANONYMOUS crap compatibility with the G5 get you act together guys!
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| Dec 21 2004 |
JOE I've played around with YDL for a couple years now. I had version 3.1 running on a PowerMac 6500 250MHz 603e processor. It was a great running system and very stable. A few days ago I installed YDL 4 on a Blueberry iBook 300MHz with 320MB RAM and a 30GB 4200RPM HD. Installation was easy but not very fast. I installed a ton of packages so that is where the not very fast comes in. My first impression after the install wasn't all that great. It is slow running which I did not expect. Panther runs faster on my iBook. YDL 3.1 ran faster on my PM 6500. You get all the typical Linux applications like OpenOffice and others that would be expected of a Linux distro. I didn't have a problem getting Mac On Linux working so that is a plus. Airport was recognized and I connected to the Internet through my home network without any problems. Downloading through Airport was very slow. I would get between 4-6kps. I'm not on dial-up so I would expect at least 100kps. Anything I tried to download was at this slow speed. I never could download updates because I could never connect to the servers. Overall I feel that the system would be faster if it where at least 500MHz. The GUI still looks very plain compared to distros like SuSE or Mandrake. You still have to use the command line to get updates which is bad for new users. Mandrake PPC (which isn't even being updated as far as I can tell) has had it where you can update through the GUI for some time. YDL 4 will not install on anything below a G3 so anyone with an older PowerMac should find an earlier release. YDL will not put new life into your old G3. Stick with OSX 10.3 because it is faster and just as stable. I wouldn't use this as my primary OS on anything below 500MHz. Overall I feel that this is a very weak release. YDL has a long way to go and for a newbie this distro will most likely cause nothing but aggravation.
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 | Dec 2 2004 |
SOUTHPAW You are not paying for the Linux. You can download the Linux for free. You are paying for the CDs, Manual, Packaging, etcetera. What people are forgetting, is that there is over 1000 programs that are included on four CDs with the purchase. (That's a lot of time saved from downloading) Many of these programs were written for the purpose of providing free functionality where it previously cost money. So, even though many of you have never heard of the names of the programs(because many are Linux only), the individual functionality is often nearly equal to and sometimes equal or greater than popular commercial applications that cost money. Included programs, like MOL(Mac on Linux which runs OS9 and OSX) and Bochs(PC emulator which supports up to Win98) are useful for compatibility purposes. Updates to programs are from people that want to update the programs, rather people that are paid to create updates for programs. Finding updates sometimes takes a little searching. YDL is based off RedHat Linux. It is less resource intensive(or can be adjusted) than XP or OSX, which means it will run faster than those operating systems at daily tasks. Most applications written for Linux are written for pc, so new applications that you would like to use that aren't YDL can be recompiled via the source code to the ppc format. Which means that there is no re-writing neccessary... something like if you could run Windows software on your mac without having to re-write the software(without having to buy VPC). Very convenient. Linux isn't for the person that doesn't know anything about computers, unless they have a ravishing desire to learn. However, if you know little, are willing to try out a number of freeware programs till you get the hang of them, then maybe over a thousand free programs included with your operating system will be a very luxurious thing.
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| Nov 11 2004 |
PHIL Way too much for something that does so little in such a buggy fashon
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| Nov 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS 3.0 sucks if you want to run it as a server, the apache/mysqlphp was compiled already and couldn't recompile my own... axps was missing. It worked great with Samba, one that actually did work, after trying Debian with Samba and no luck. If you don't need to compile your own php/apache/mysql it's perfect.
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| Jul 14 2004 |
ANONYMOUS dosent work at all with my power tower pro.The previous version 2.3 worked with the text installation but the current vesion does not have a text installation and it will not work on a lot of pre g3 machines with the original graphics card.When i go to the installation its just a bunch of weird looking stuff on the screen.Please bring back the text installation so i can upgrade.
(Version 3.0.1) | |
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| Aug 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS YDL is running great on my PowerCenter Pro.
(Version 3.0.1) | |
| Oct 13 2004 |
DANIEL If only people would READ the MANUAL sometimes! Taken directly from the Companion to Installing YDL 3.0.1: ...for the non-graphical, text-based installer which uses the TAP, ARROW, and RETURN keys instead of the mouse, which must be used on certain computers whose graphics cards are not readily supported." Oh, and YDL is a truly great OS. I still use OS X for most things, but with a touch of a key my computer will boot into Linux.
(Version 3.0.1) | |
| Jan 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS umm,I read the manual.What you said to do is for new world macs using yaboot.So why dont you read before you post?
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| Mar 6 2004 |
ANONYMOUS YDL is no mere knock off operating system, it is a full blown contendor to OS X. It's a true experience of collaberative efforts to bring you professional software. A developer, student, or home user will benefit from this regardless of their kneeds. Download it. Burn it. Trash OS X.
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| Nov 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Nice commercial. Now back to our feature presentation.
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| Nov 20 2004 |
DAVE ummm....i have never read such a misleading and just plain inaccurate piece of drivel. YDL is just horrible compared to OS X. Why anyone would want to use this distribution is utterly beyond me :)
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| Nov 20 2004 |
ANONYMOUS oops...take that back. I just read the XP spiel.
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| Dec 2 2004 |
SOUTHPAW You might be right. All in all, it seems to be the only bootup Linux on the ppc platform anyway. Other Linux distributions run via X11 and one pre-alpha KDE version runs native with OSX desktop. Still, some open soure software is tremendously impressive in its functionality for being donationware only. The fact is, maybe you do have to re-compile the 386 versions to get ppc versions for certain software like blender, but the fact remains that with thousands of free applications, the effort of learning how to use these applications far outweighs the pain of dealing with paying for upgrades of software for 10 more years. I mean, I've been on computers for about 16 years, and the last 5 years have been about making money off upgrades and plug-in software. Well, I'm tired of paying for the blasted Adobe stuff, or Macromedia stuff, or Microsoft stuff, or even Apple stuff. I'm fed up with it. It costs too much money, money that could be spent on better things. With Open Source software, and Open Source operating systems(Linux), upgrades are always free, and the software almost always is too. Besides, the application that comes with nearly every Linux called Bochs will run Windows 98(which incidentally the application is available for osx too) and MOL(Mac On Linux) will run osx. And the more I use GIMP 2, the more I like it. The same goes for blender. I mean... come on, if over one thousand free applications come with Yellow Dog Linux... how can it be that bad? To further enunciate, you are not paying for the linux, you are paying for all the ways it cost to get to you, such as the box, the cds, the manual, etcetera. YDL is free. You can download it for free at certain servers on their website.
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| Oct 15 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Yellowdog beats os x hands down.If you are a linux nut,you will never bee happy with os x.
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| Feb 24 2002 |
ASTERAX Stable, Carbonized, Free, and Fast. What more could you want? YDL rocks, I wonder why they waited until now to submit YDL, it has been ready to download for ages.
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