Which Distro?

Cian Duffy myob87 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 08:56:29 MST 2005


Poorly. 

Its just an x86 system, ported. I last used it on an OldWorld machine
some time ago, and its only concession to being on PPC was pbbuttonsd
for laptop hotkey support. No mouse emulation out of the box, etc.

YDL is designed to run on the Macintosh, Mandrake is designed for x86.

Cian


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:52:54 -0500, Larry Varney <lvarney at fuse.net> wrote:
>   I have ordered one of the most recent 12" iBooks. I have Linux on
> several non-Mac desktop machines, so I am of course interested in having
> it on the laptop.
>   I suspect that the general consensus on this list will be in favor of
> YDL, but what about Mandrake? I have it on one of my desktops, and I
> like it. In your opinion, how does its PPC offering compare to YDL?
>   Thanks for any input.
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