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anyone use yellow dog?

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jbsengineer

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I just installed Yellow Dog Linux on my powerbook last night. I'm currently dual booting it. It's based on Fedora. I must say it's very nice. I have OS X, Linux, and Windows(VPC) on one little 12" powerbook. My co-workers drool....

Josh
 
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meltbanana314

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jbsengineer said:
I just installed Yellow Dog Linux on my powerbook last night. I'm currently dual booting it. It's based on Fedora. I must say it's very nice. I have OS X, Linux, and Windows(VPC) on one little 12" powerbook. My co-workers drool....

Josh
Click to expand...

YDL was around well before Fedora... back when Red Hat actually stood behind their products.

Debian and Gentoo Linux also have PPC versions, but the learning curve is infinitely steeper than that of YDL.
 
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Cloudane

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I'm afraid I'm of the "if there's such a nice OS available on your platform, why would you run Linux?" crowd :D I did aim to try running it off an external firewire HDD, but surprise surprise the Linux bootstrap thing isn't quite that intelligent.
 
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where'd u download yellow dog linux from?

the main webpage of YDL gives links to sites with a bunch of files. is there anywhere i can get an iso image file for cds?

thanks in advance
 

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