YDL for Intel?

[Michael George]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 12:02  PM, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> This has been brought up before and the general consensus was "Ick".

Can't say as I blame anyone, there...

> 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 releases, 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 :)

Good points.  That's what I'm doing now, somewhat, I'll have to keep 
with it.

> 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 :)

You, sir, are correct! :)  "bad fingers, very bad!!"

Thanks!
-Michael