Terrasoft appears to be taking order for YDL 4.0 now

[Pat Plummer, MD]

To Mr. Ryan Nix, President, Prometheon, Inc:

You said:
Terrasoft doesn't work on that much.

Reply:
No. They don't. Just the PPC specific stuff. I would guess that most of 
the work done in this regard by the TerraSoft/YDL folks along with the 
work of Benjamin Herrenschmidt and only a very few others is shared by 
the OSS community at large. PPC is a small niche area of Linux in the 
big scheme of things, but where the PPC/Macintosh is concerned, they do 
one HELL of a lot for those of us that love all things Mac. I would say 
that most likely those other distros you mention are sharing in the 
work that these folks have done when it comes to the PPC/Mac specific 
pieces - not the other way around. Take a look at the small print when 
you read about the other distros you mention to see who it is that is 
making the PPC versions possible.

You said:
They don't allow YDL 4 to be downloaded from the mirrors.  Where is it? 
  Why isn't it allowed?... Knoppix is free and can be downloaded for 
free.  Mandrake, Debian, etc are all downloadable for free.

Reply:
You either haven't been around here very long or haven't been 
listening. When the nice folks at YDL come out with a new version, they 
always offer it to YDL. net folks first, the folks that wish to buy 
next, and then it is offered for download. And before YDL.net, it was 
offered for sale for a few weeks before the ISOs were released. It's 
been that way since Champion Server 1.0.

You said:
YDL 4 didn't work on my iBook G3 600mhz right out of the box.  I still 
haven't gotten a response out of them on this.  I can't call them 
either.  Its this list that Terasoft rely's for the community to help. 
Mandrake 10.1 PPC works fine and I'm probably going to switch.

Reply:
Hummph. You oughta try an install on an Apple Network Server.

Mandrake charges for their products as well and they cover ALL types of 
platforms. YDL only does PPC/Mac. On hardware that changes on a regular 
basis without advance warning and for which info is not immediately (if 
at all) released.

But if Mandrake works for you, knock yourself out :). You'll find that 
many times the PPC versions of their distros lag behind x86 and others. 
Gee, now I wonder why that is?

It would seem that a president of a big IT company that charges for his 
company's services would understand that it takes money to run a 
business and help drive progress...

Ah, well.

I'll be buying my YDL4 when it's available, just like I have since CS 
1.0. Putting at least a little money where my mouth is.

Pat
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