YDL and FC4

[beartooth]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:28:12 -0600, frenzy wrote:

> It looks like FC4 now supports G5s. Has anyone compared Fedora Core 4 to
> YellowDog or other PPC64 linux distributions? Is anyone actively running
> these on Apple XServes?

Fwiw, this post amounts to encouragement to keep asking: I'm running FC4
on three PCs, and will on a fourth: we had a power failure just at the end
of the install, and I messed up shutting it down. Now it won't boot, but
that's a grub problem or an MBR problem or a hardware problem -- and I'm
looking for help from FC people.

So far, I've had only two genuine problems, and both are/were minor. I
didn't know enough to put an rpmnew file in -- it was there -- to replace
yum.conf on a machine upgraded from FC1; once I did that, all went well,
except for the other problem. (Upgrades from FC2 and FC3 went swimmingly.)

But the other problem is a pinprick: I can't seem to get the launcher for
Epiphany 1.6.1 to use the proper icon. Some silly detail, I'm sure.
Meanwhile, I simply remember to click on the orange question mark when I
want to launch Epiphany.

And now that I can actually run Galeon again -- my favorite browser, till
it hit dependency hell -- I expect to run both Epiphany and Konqueror a
lot less. (My main three are Opera for bookmarks, Dillo for speed, and
Firefox for special cases.)

Other than that, I'm already thinking the default decision is going to be
replacing YDL4 with FC4 -- not out of dissatisfaction, but just for the
convenience of having one less OS to ride herd on. So do post any more
that you get, a/o encourage replies to appear here and not just under the
list.

Oh, and one other thing: there's a long thread on
gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general complaining about somebody's failed
install. Odd to see someone else having more problems with a new OS than I
do -- but you may want to have a look ....

-- 
Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist
FC4, YDL 4; Pine 4.63, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; 
Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.01, Firefox 1.0.4, Epiphany 1.6.1
Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about.