Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 01, 2006 02:01 AM
For all of those who might be having some challenges with GNU/Linux on Apple PPC boxes:
You really should try Yellow Dog Linux. It was the first general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution for the PowerPC architecture and is, in my experience, still the most polished. I run YDL 4.1 on my G3 tower (soon to be 5.0), and Kubuntu Dapper Drake on my PowerBook Pismo. YDL sets up the F11 ("middle click") and F12 ("right click") functionality for you, turnkey, and everything, except for those damned Winmodems (a general problem for all Free Software, unfortunately) seems to Just Work.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not bagging on Ubuntu or Debian, both of which I like and use a lot (remember my Pismo laptop, above). But YDL's polish on Apple PPC boxes really has set a standard that I have yet to see beaten. Remember that "yum" stands for "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" and was preceded by the original "yup", which was "Yellowdog Updater". That alone made my life SO much easier than before.
I highly recommend Yellow Dog Linux to anybody running on any Apple PowerPC machine.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 01, 2006 02:01 AMYou really should try Yellow Dog Linux. It was the first general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution for the PowerPC architecture and is, in my experience, still the most polished. I run YDL 4.1 on my G3 tower (soon to be 5.0), and Kubuntu Dapper Drake on my PowerBook Pismo. YDL sets up the F11 ("middle click") and F12 ("right click") functionality for you, turnkey, and everything, except for those damned Winmodems (a general problem for all Free Software, unfortunately) seems to Just Work.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not bagging on Ubuntu or Debian, both of which I like and use a lot (remember my Pismo laptop, above). But YDL's polish on Apple PPC boxes really has set a standard that I have yet to see beaten. Remember that "yum" stands for "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" and was preceded by the original "yup", which was "Yellowdog Updater". That alone made my life SO much easier than before.
I highly recommend Yellow Dog Linux to anybody running on any Apple PowerPC machine.
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