Which Distro?

[Joshua Wehner]

Just for clarification: I thought YDL was based on RH/Fedora. Is that 
wrong? If it's correct, then how is YDL more than just a port?


-- joshua

On Feb 28, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Cian Duffy wrote:

> 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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