Does Red Hack suck?

[Gavin Hemphill]

Ok, so how does Ubuntu make it work so seamlessly on both my TIPB and 
ALPB.  Not only that, my PCI scsi cards seem to work under Ubuntu on my 
Quicksilver.  Not only that, I just did a ubuntu install to a firewire 
disk, out of the box - this isn't to say I've got firewire figured out 
completely under kernel 2.6 but the Ubuntu installer sure can deal with 
it - it screws up when you actually boot the 2.6 kernel on the firewire 
device, but I figure that's probably some arguments to mkinitrd, modules 
etc that I had to figure out under the old 2.4 kernels to get things 
booting off firewire.  Hmmm, even power management seems to be at least 
partially functional on the ALPB under Ubuntu and works great on the 
TIPB.  I've even seen security upgrades already.

For a distro that I've only had a day and a bit to play around with I 
must say I'm really really impressed.  I'll even give up KDE for all the 
other advantages I've seen so far - but maybe I'll just apt-get KDE and 
see what happens since I'm playing around.

I've also installed Ubuntu on a couple of I386 boxes, one a few years 
old and one days old, with the same painless install and upgrade.  All I 
have to figure out now is how to support Ubuntu since they don't sell 
distributions.  hmmmm maybe I'll set up a North American mirror for them.
	G++

Owen Stampflee wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> The sound issue is a known issue on YDL4... we're working on it. The
> fact is that the PowerMac sound drivers really suck, and it doesnt
> matter what distro that you go with, sound will be still an issue. 
> 
> Security errata will be coming more regularly, but we're busy... there
> was a large amount of security errata done in April, it was just never
> announced.
> 
> Even though our engineering staff has doubled (2 full timers, 2 part
> timers) in size in the last year, we have a lot of work to do... with
> both myself and AJ working crazy hours every week, we're barely able to
> keep up... this will also mean YDL4.1 will be started very soon, and
> it'll be a stabilized version of FC3 and a mix of YDL4, we're also
> planning on doing some fun stuff on YDL.net, like iPod support, other
> cool apps that get lots of chatter in the linux world, and some
> component upgrades (lets hope we dont get sued for MP3 usage).
> 
> Cheers,
> Owen
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