OT: Best PowerPC distro?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
21 Apr 2003 12:54:53 +0200


On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 00:00, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Eric Volker wrote:
>=20
> > Since everyone here is running PowerPC Linux in one form or another, I
> > thought this would be a good place to get recommendations on a PowerPC
> > distribution. I'm currently running Mandrake 9.1rc1 which has a
> > tendency to crash and some parts of it just don't work.
>=20
> Until recently I ran SuSE Linux on my Pismo, but I an now changing to the
> new Mandrake 9.1 - final is out. IMHO this is the best updated and most
> user fiendly distro aground if you are a typical dektop user. YDL is fine
> (and I haven=B4t seen the new 3.0), but my experience tells me, that it
> lacks easy configurations tools. SuSE has "YaST"; Mandrake has "Control
> Panel". YDL need one place, where you can do all normal configurations an=
d
> updates without messing with editing configurations files.

YDL3 is much better in this regard. Personally, I'm a debian addict, so
I'll have to keep my hand dirty in config files for a while ;)

Ben.