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which ppc linux?
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Just wondering if anyone can give me a little advice. I'm trying to decide between YellowDog Linux 3.0 or the newly released Mandrake Linux 9.1. I currently use OSX.2.5 on a powerMac, but would like to teach myself the unix (linux) OS on my older powerbook (lombard g3).
Thanks in advance.
(Last edited by arocha; Apr 11, 2003 at 06:05 PM.
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Join Date: May 2002
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Originally posted by arocha:
Just wondering if anyone can give me a little advice. I'm trying to decide between YellowDog Linux 3.0 or the newly released Mandrake Linux PPC. I currently use OSX, but would like to stretch myself a bit.
Thanks in advance.
I'd say go with the new Mandrake 9.1. It looks pretty good, I haven't tried it yet though.
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i just installed it
everything was cool
much better then when i installed mandrake8.2
seemed awsome except for my video card on my ibook, made xfree spastic
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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I'd say go with what you'd like to. Yellowdog has been around a lot longer on the mac, with greater support (at least in the past) for the mac hardware.
The 3.0 looks great. I'm waiting to download it when its available at the end of the month. For now I've downloaded mandrake 9.1 but have yet to install it.
I have had yellowdog on everything from an 8500, 7300, 7600 and briefly tried it on a dual533 g4 (but decided OSX was the better choice for that machine).
You'll definitely be happy with Yellowdog. And I'm reasonably sure the latest Mandrake is good. I had a bit of trouble installing the 8.1 release a while back, but that may have been a crappy old CD-ROM drive I was using.
Enjoy. Linux will teach you a LOT about the underside of OSX even though there are distinct differences.
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Just curious for those who know more about this than I. What is the big difference between Linux and using Apple's X11 w/ KDE or Gnome? I have KDE running under X11 on my iMac 17" (since no Linux out there yet will install on it) and it is great. Any advantage to Linux over that setup?
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Originally posted by Mrjinglesusa:
Just curious for those who know more about this than I. What is the big difference between Linux and using Apple's X11 w/ KDE or Gnome? I have KDE running under X11 on my iMac 17" (since no Linux out there yet will install on it) and it is great. Any advantage to Linux over that setup?
Linux is running a different underbelly that is actually still quite the same in some respect. But if you mean what's the difference for the user, then I would say Mac OS X is just generally easier to use.
With Linux, you have many problems, even on the PPC, because a lot of the support for hardware has been hacked together. People are constantly having video card, or sound card problems, and that's not even the beginning. Don't get me wrong, it's still REALLY good. It's just a lot of work to get Linux working properly sometimes. And since you can run almost all of PPC Linux's applications through OS X it makes PPC Linux almost useless.
Now there is an exception to that though. Older machines which can't run OS X can run PPC Linux and that comes in quite handy. Stick with Mac OS X and X11, you'll be better off.
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