Which Distro?

[Cian Duffy]

Its a fork more than a port - a PowerPC specific fork. As a result,
its much more optomised for the PPC, with the kind of software you
need on PPC and not x86 - mouse emulation, powerbook hotkeys, airport
config tools, and so on

Cian


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:51:32 -0600, Joshua Wehner
<josh.wehner at ultratec.com> wrote:
> 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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