What is the Yellow Doggiest x86 distribution?

[Joshua Miller]

I agree that YDL install is somewhat nicer than that of other distros,
but I've had a ton of problems getting it installed on a PowerMac 6500
... It didn't detect the network card or even install some core items,
it won't display screen resolutions that I can use with the same machine
under MandrakePPC 8.0 or MacOS 8.6, it asks me for a specific monitor, I
enter that monitor and it writes the config file with a generic and my
ADB mouse works every other time I boot. I literally have to open PICO
and edit /etc/X11/xf86Config-4 every other time I boot, change the mouse
entry from /dev/mouse to /dev/adbmouse, reboot and let X fail, then
change the line back to /dev/mouse and restart the X server to get the
ADB mouse to work under YDL 2.2

I like it once it's running, although I still can't get it to recognize
my Realtek 8139 PCI network card. I've had much more success with
Mandrake, but I'm going to keep plugging away at it in hopes of using
YDL.

Joshua Miller
josh@joshuasmiller.com


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[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf
Of nathan r. hruby
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:57 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: RE: What is the Yellow Doggiest x86 distribution?


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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