[CodeWarrior]

They signed a deal with Moto. I wonder when the G5 is coming out?

Red Hat story at MacCentral


Sounds like big news for the G4.

[v0id7]

YESSSSSSS! this is wonderful news! [jumps into the air and clap his feet together]

i wonder when i comes out? i can wait!

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by v0id7:
<STRONG>YESSSSSSS! this is wonderful news! [jumps into the air and clap his feet together]

i wonder when i comes out? i can wait!</STRONG>

Wow, this is awesome news. I'm not a large fan of RedHat or anything, but anything that supports PowerPC and AltiVec is worth a try for me.

[jguidroz]

So how is this different from Yellow Dog Linux that supports the G4 and Altivec?

[v0id7]

"So how is this different from Yellow Dog Linux that supports the G4 and Altivec?"

Redhat is better.

[wingdo]

Originally posted by v0id7:
<STRONG>"So how is this different from Yellow Dog Linux that supports the G4 and Altivec?"

Redhat is better.</STRONG>

Well, that answers everything.

[jguidroz]

Originally posted by v0id7:
<STRONG>"So how is this different from Yellow Dog Linux that supports the G4 and Altivec?"

Redhat is better.</STRONG>

So with YDL 2.2 having a Red Hat 7.2 Foundation, how is Red Hat better?

[Graymalkin]

YDL is based off of RedHat and always has been. Saying RH is better is just ridiculous. YDL was a scratch an itch distro meant to fill the void left by there not being a really workable PPC distro. They based it off RH in order to have a working base which they could port. Now that RH and SuSE and others support PPC YDL is slowly becoming redundant but it is pretty much analguous to RH.

[Michael A. Peters]

Originally posted by v0id7:
<STRONG>"So how is this different from Yellow Dog Linux that supports the G4 and Altivec?"

Redhat is better.</STRONG>

Bull.
This is something I know about-

I worked heavily with both YDL and Red Hat when I worked for Abriasoft.

Most of the distro was identical- as in SAME src.rpm's but just compiled on the other platform.
There were a *few* minor revisions to patch Makefiles and occasionally code, but those seemed to make it into the Red Hat updates as well.

YDL and Red Hat for all practical purposes are the same distro.

Red Hat wanted nothing to do with ppc chip.
They were more interested in Sparc64

So LinuxPPC and YDL filled the void. And MKLinux, too.
Sparc64 linux ends up not selling well (not surprising- why run linux on hardware that comes with Solaris?)

So now RH wants to go to PowerPC?

Screw em.
They had their chance.

Let's support the distro's that showed early interest in ppc
Distro's that made ppc linux what it now is.

MKLinux, LinuxPPC, YDL, Debian

SuSE too, they were late in the game- but their money was largely responsible for good USB support.

[v0id7]

sorry guys, i was just excited. i posted out of speculation and what ive heard from a friend about redhat on pc.