[ydl-gen] First Impressions of YDL 4.1 on OldWorld Beige G3/300

[Andrew]

I am actually impressed!

-=The good=-
* The system is quite responsive. The whole thing seam MUCH faster than
4.0 / 4.0.1 It must be the new kernel or the guys at TSS worked like
dogs either way this is very nice.
* I noticed the new 'start' menu. It is very well done as I find my way
quickly. Its intuitive. Good Job..
* The ttys clear the screen after a logout. Ubuntu does not do that
which is lame.. Say, I work some important security/admin stuffs in a
tty then I logout, well, everything stay visible unless I manually
'clear' before 'exit'. This can be bad... It is good to clear the screen
first
* The new YUM is sweet. Its close up to apt-get! Apt-get does not have
yum provides (gnagna.. :)) That is great for yum, yum is now great. 
* More up to date packages.

-=The Bad=-
* KDE taskbar is UGLY. These little icons down there make me itch. The
clock is flacky, it vanished, I have to remove then re-add the applet.
* Some lags and lost-clicks here and there.. 
* "Save under" not working, windows take some time to redraw from
behind.
* The ttys clear the screen after a logout. I might not want that..
huh? huh?  :)
* No 'out-of-box' OldWorld macs support ;(
* I see no SCSI support? Neither my JAZ and CD-R show up anywhere? The
system see my SCSI host adapter (sym53c8xx thing) but not what is
connected to it?
* STILL DEPENDENCIES ISSUES!! >:(
Since I done a 'Personal Desktop' installation (default) and I want
everything installed (so I can click everything) without stepping back
to anaconda, I ran this command in order to install all available RPMs
as quickly and simply as possible. (yes, you can laugh... fell free to
suggest a better way :) Add/Remove Application crapped out on me after
making me dance between CD1 then 3 then 1 then 2 yadda yadda)
]# yum install a* b* c* d* e* f* g* h* i* j* k* l* m* n* o* p* q* r* s*
t* u* v* w* x* y* z* 1* 2* 3* 4* 5* 6* 7* 8* 9* 0*  [ENTER]
Results:
(...)
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: iiimf-server >= 1:11.4-4 is needed by package
iiimf-le-xcin
Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/iiimf-le-tools is needed by package
iiimf-le-chinput
Error: Missing Dependency: ttfonts-ja >= 1.2-26 is needed by package
VFlib2-conf-ja
Error: Missing Dependency: python = 2.4.1 is needed by package
python-docs
Error: Missing Dependency: xloadimage is needed by package mozplugger
]# yum install iiimf-server
No Match for argument: iiimf-server


This has been my first impressions of Yellow Dog Linux 4.1. It is much
better than 4.0 and even 4.0.1 but this is still not enough to keep me
on board. Sorry guys, since you don't support my computer type
(oldworld), and the community here is quite small (sound sad to me), I
feel I have to go back to the Brown world.