What is the Yellow Doggiest x86 distribution?

[nathan r. hruby]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joshua Miller wrote:

> I was under the impression that YellowDog was more or less a port of
> RedHat to PPC.
> 

To a certian extent, though YDL is has a bit nicer in the way the install
and setup goes.  The YDL tools are a bit simpler and yup/yum/apt is nicer
than up2date/rhn/redcarpet.  As pointed out earlier, the easiest best
solution is a simple (read: base) install of Redhat-7.2 with yum
and some tinkering.  

apt for rpm came from Connectiva, if they're still around as a distro you 
could take a look at them - I don't know much about them other than they 
did the inital apt-rpm work.

Debian is also a very nice distro, with a sucky installer.  Most things 
are thought through very well and the dpkg system takes core of most of 
the configuration for the system, apt is native to debian, etc... The 
software  has a tendancy of running on the stale side, but it'll work with 
not a lot of fuss which is nice.  Also nice to be able to run the exact 
same distro on pretty much every hardware platform you have.

-n

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