OT When to use OSX/YDL?

[Jim Hart]

Come on, YDL, don't abandon those of us with older hardware. I have 2 
Powerbook 3400s that can't run OSX and that aren't stable with OS9. I 
resurrected them with YDL, giving them stability and the ability to 
network with Windows. And, I just gave you $100 to help support the 
cause.

But, upgrading applications for Linux can become impossible very 
quickly if one can't keep the system up to date. New versions of 
applications often require new versions of shared libraries. In 
essence, this means that we won't be able to keep our older Macs going 
for very long unless we do a lot of source level installs. It will 
amount to maintaining the distribution ourselves. What a bummer!

And, forget the other distributions. I tried Debian, Suse and Mandrake. 
None of them installed correctly on a PowerMac 6500. Didn't Suse stop 
work on PPC as of version 7.3, anyway?

You know one of the greatest things about YDL over the other distros? 
The programs in the menu system have clear descriptive names. I don't 
know all the cryptic names for the various Linux apps. I had no idea 
that to play audio streams I needed 'xmms' or 'noatune'. Bless YDL for 
solving that crucial usability problem.

Regards to all,
Jim H.

On Sunday, April 18, 2004, at 09:22  AM, Thomas Carlson wrote:

> I have been following this thread with some interest especially after 
> Terra Soft put out their "Road Map" for Yellow Dog Linux on April 7.  
> Do I read it correctly that Yellow Dog Linux will no longer be 
> supporting pre-G3 Macs after May?  YDL 3.0 runs pretty well on my 
> PowerMac 9500 (except for CUPS printing) but I would probably switch 
> to another Linux distro if YDL is going to leave the "oldworld" Macs 
> out of their future plans.  Or, will Debian, Gentoo, and Mandrake 
> follow suit?