YDL for Intel?

[nathan r. hruby]

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Michael George wrote:

> I have an Xserver at work that we're running YDL on and I'm so dang 
> happy with it, I'd like to run it on my intel box (currently RHL2.3).
> 
> I wouldn't imagine there are any thoughts of doing a YDL for Intel 
> (Blue Dog?) by the folks at TerraSoft...  That would allow me to have 
> all my linux boxes running the same distro...
> 

This has been brought up before and the general consensus was "Ick".  YDL 
tracks redhat closely enough so that the general user experince is closely 
the same with both (maybe less so with 3.0.. I'm still waiting for 
install3 to mirror at GATech so I con't say with great autority :)  

For YDL 2.x releaases, the 7.x series is a very close approximate.  YDL 
3.0 seems to be 8.0 + 9.0's desktop stuff - either one would probably work 
well.  With that and a little fancy yum'ing to make things roughly equal 
you'll probably be in good shape.  If you're really die hard, you could 
probably recompile the YDL source pakages for x86 and use LFS to get an 
install wegded into some partition,  but then you might as well be 
running Gentoo :)

You say you have RHL-2.3 running at home.. I'm really hoping you mean the 
Advanced product, or the "regular" 7.3 and not a real redhat v2 release :)

-n
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