Twentieth Anniversary Mac -- Good for YDL?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

You say: "it was one of the few New World Macs that did not support the Mac
OS X Beta." All NewWorld Macs support every version of OS X that has been
released so far. The TAM is an OldWorld Mac, and it apparently has the same
Open Firmware as the PowerMac 5500 and 6500, but with no OF video driver,
just like the 7200. Someone earlier on this list promised to maintain a FAQ
page specific to getting YDL 4 running on OldWorld Macs once YDL 4 is
released. Until then, you shouldn't have much trouble with YDL 3.0.1 except
for the same X woes that YDL 3 introduced to all models.
-- 
"Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do."
                                                        --National Lampoon

> From: Clinton MacDonald <clint.macdonald@sbcglobal.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:13:00 -0500
> Subject: Twentieth Anniversary Mac -- Good for YDL?
> 
> Friends:
> 
> Again, I ask for advice from the YDL Community.
> 
> My eBay fever is peaking again; this time I am looking at Twentieth
> Anniversary Macs (I haven't bid on it... yet). They look so beautiful
> and *so* cool -- it's too bad they were so expensive and so underpowered
> when they were new. Does anyone have experience using one of these with
> Yellow Dog Linux?
> 
> The Yellow Dog Linux Hardware page (which has been updated to reflect
> YDL 4.0, even though it is not yet available) suggests that the
> Twentieth Anniversary Mac (TAM) is unsupported with YDL 4.0, but "SHOULD
> FUNCTION given a Yellow Dog Linux v3.0 foundation and MAY FUNCTION with
> the current release" (how's that for unhelpful?):
> 
> <http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/others.shtml>
> 
> The TAM I am looking at has a 2 GB hard drive (barely enough), 96 MB of
> RAM (is that enough?), and a 250 MHz Power PC 603e CPU (underpowered,
> but sufficient). Some online sources mention that the engineering on
> this machine was unique, and Open Firmware on these machines is very,
> very wonky -- for instance, it was one of the few New World Macs that
> did not support the Mac OS X Beta. The unusual engineering might mean
> that YDL will be wonky, too.
> 
> What I want is actual experiences (positive or negative) from people who
> have installed YDL on this machine. Based on the specifications, it is
> difficult to know whether YDL will work or not (and Terra Soft's site is
> distinctively unhelpful on this point).
> 
> Thanks!!!!!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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