Yellow Dog Linux Opinion

[anarkhy 17]

For the past few months I have been dual booting Mac OS X and Yellow Dog Linux. While i though Terra Soft did a great job porting Red Hat 9.0 to the Mac, i found it pointless to have linux for the mac when you have a great OS that is running off of the same base kernel that Linux uses, i just don't see the point.... what i am trying to say is what made terra soft want to port Linux to the Mac??? don't get me wrong because i think YDL is an exceptional Distro.

 

[flonejek]

Most likeley becaues mac os9 and earlier didn't support opensource *nix software (which is quite handy when native apps don't fit the bill), and also because mac on liux lets your run os X through yellow dog at 99.8% of native speed so its like the best of both worlds I guess. And there are those of us who believe information should be free, and who are staunchly against any proprietary software, however great it might be.

 

[anarkhy 17]

Yeah i never really thought about OS 9... and i am one of the firmest believer in free software and open source i even read "Just For Fun" - by Linus Torvalds & David Diamond see here > http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=pT7X5Lh9MH&isbn=0066620732&itm=1 great book - just finished reading it.