OT -Other than Yellow Dog ?

[Terry Houle]

Thanks Harvey.  I am a very beginner at this and certainly not 
proficient, so yes it is useful.  I tend to think of Debian as not  
having a GUI and just text based.   Are you running generally from 
command line stuff or is there a GUI?

terry
On Nov 30, 2003, at 7:09 PM, Harvey Ussery wrote:

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> Terry Houle wrote:
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>> Hope not to start any flames since a YDL list but though the best 
>> place to post since I currently subscribe and am running it (YDL) on 
>> my i Book.  Anyway my question is if anyone has tried other distro's 
>> on their Mac?  I just saw a post on a Linux list about maybe Red Hat 
>> more interested in server market than desktop.  Since I believe YDL 
>> is based on Red Hat wondering how some other distro's might  fare on 
>> my box?
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> Terry,    Don't know if it will be useful, my responding at all, since 
> I've just made a beginning, but: I decided to try several other 
> distro's after 3 yrs of using first RedHat & then (after I switched 
> hardware from a Dell Pentium to my iMac) YDL. I did a reconfig of the 
> whole system: Kept MacOSX (only--did not retain OS9) but on only about 
> 5 1/2 gigs, then allotted all the rest of an 80-gig hd for playing w 
> Linux's. First I reinstalled YDL on 17 1/2 gigs, and that is still my 
> most-used & stable distro.
> In summary, it's hard to compare the two as yet. In some ways Debian 
> has seemed new & strange; but I'm further along at this point in the 
> process than I was in ydl. If you try it, let me know what you think. 
> [BTW, I installed from the official 7-cd set.]
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>> I realize that YDL is probably  the distro of choice for Mac.
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> Don't know that that's necessarily the case. The Debian developers 
> seem to have worked out a lot of the kinks for use with ppc.
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> Good luck!    --Harvey
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Terry Houle
using a Mac
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