YDL off the cutting edge

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Should be interesting to see if the NuBus crew 

	http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/

will update their kernel and YDL installers for YDL-4.0.x


-Joseph

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On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:06, sloopy wrote:
> responses are interspersed
> 
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 05:09, R. Hirschfeld wrote:
> > For anyone from TerraSoft on the list, will security updates and the
> > like be backported to YDL 3.0.1 or has support for that version
> > essentially stopped?
> > 
> 
> yes, YDL 3 is rather old.
> 
> > I have an Old World machine (Wallstreet PowerBook) and I'm try to
> > decide whether to stick with YDL (which I'd prefer) or switch to
> > another distribution.
> > 
> 
> stick with YDL, its good for you ;')
> 
> > Alternatively I can hold out until YDL 4.1 (or 4.0.1) is released on
> > CD if it will include a kernel that will run on an Old World machine
> > (my understanding--please correct me if I'm wrong--is that 4.0 does
> > not but that it is relatively easy to include this).  I realize that
> > TerraSoft has dropped official support for Old World machines but I
> > can handle the setup myself if I can at least boot the installer from
> > the CD using the kernel and ramdisk supplied.  Will that be possible
> > with the next release?  Is there a tentative timeframe yet for this?
> > 
> 
> support for Old World machines is completely gone, there are several
> HOW-TO's on installing YDL 4.0 on OW's and literally the the support for
> OW's will continue to be in the kernel source but not compiled in, so
> therefore using future releases of YDL will be simply a matter of
> getting a kernel to use with the installer and installing BootX (or quik
> etc) yourself. and with the large number of OW machines around people
> will be around to supply these for the foreseeable future.
> 
> sloopy.
> 
> p.s. i am not an employee of Terrasoft Solutions just one of many
> devoted followers ;')
> 
> 
> 
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