Terrasoft appears to be taking order for YDL 4.0 now

[Zugwrack]

Everyone, although the discussion is correct about Mandrake PC...it IS
NOT correct in regards to Mandrake PPC....there are no fees concerned
since Mandrake "officially" does not support or develop their PPC
version. It is just a group of folks who want Mandrake-PPC to stay
alive....how YDL 4.0 will stack up to that after it is available for
free download...who can say...whatever floats your boat.

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:00:12 -0700, Pat Plummer, MD
<blacksun at ix.gotdns.org> wrote:
> 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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