[ydl-gen] YDL vs Debian based distros

[Chris]

I'd agree that the RPM repositories for YDL are somewhat lacking (no 
php-mcrypt even, arrgh!), however I wouldn't say the same is true for 
CentOS and Fedora - the standard repos for these, complimented by DAG, 
Livna, RPMForge, FreshRPMS etc provide a huge range of RPMs.

Bearing in mind that YDL packages can (usually) be easily rebuilt from 
CentOS source RPMs this dramatically increases the number of RPMs that 
are easily obtained for YDL even if they aren't available directly in 
the YDL repos. I haven't yet required a package for YDL that I couldn't 
rebuild from the CentOS SRPM found in one of the many CentOS repos.

That said, I am running YDL as a server with no X11 installed, so for a 
desktop system YMMV.

Warren Nagourney wrote:
> For what it is worth, I am using Ubuntu 7.10 on my PS3 and I am very 
> pleased with it. I appreciate that this is a YDL forum and I would 
> have stuck with YDL, but Ubuntu used later kernels and libraries and I 
> needed to use it in order to take advantage of the RSX based 
> accelerated Xorg, which I am very pleased with (and will never, never 
> update my firmware so that I can continue using it). 
>
> In addition, I found the (Ubuntu) repositories available with synaptic 
> and apt-get to be much, much more complete than any YUM based 
> repositories from Fedora/YDL. (I have tried numerous yum.conf 
> variations). In my experience, there is no comparison. This is too 
> bad, as I would like to go back to YDL 6, which has better PPC 
> support. With Ubuntu, I almost never needed to do a Google search for 
> an app or window manager. The repos even have support for GNUstep, 
> which took all day to install on a YDL machine.
>
> cheers,
>
> Warren Nagourney
>
> On May 27, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:
>
>> Hi Kai:
>>  
>> I was always an admirer of Debian Linux, however like Red Hat (and 
>> Fedora) Linux they primarily supported Intel and compatbiles.
>> Support for PowerPC systems was with them, an afterthought which they 
>> yielded to depending upon the market penetration of computers using 
>> the PowerPC chip.  When Apple used the PowerPC they and others, like 
>> Ubuntu (a Debian variant) supported the machines that were in the 
>> marketplace.  When Apple announced that they were no longer 
>> supporting the PowerPC, Ubuntu and others eventually decided it was 
>> time to move on.  Some announcements addressing Ubuntu's decision are 
>> presented here:
>>  
>> http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/02/15/ubuntu.axes.ppc.support/
>>  
>>
>>  
>> http://google3-cnet.com.com/8301-10784_3-6159340-7.html
>>  
>> Yellow Dog Linux was from it's inception by Terra Soft Solutions 
>> always designed to be a Linux running only on PowerPC systems and to 
>> maximize features which only PowerPC systems have.  As far as being 
>> the premiere Linux variant for the PowerPC I believe that the 
>> experience and committed focus of their efforts working with PowerPC 
>> systems demonstrates their value. 
>>  
>> The other larger half of Linux which runs on Intel and other 
>> compatibles has libraries available which vastly outmatch nearly 
>> anything available for PowerPC based Linux, let alone YDL.  However, 
>> if the source isn't processor specific chances are that it can be 
>> recompiled within YDL and run within PowerPC systems which were Apple 
>> made or could be recompiled to work in the currently available Cell, 
>> which is the heart of the PS3.
>>  
>> All the best...
>>  
>>
>>
>> On 5/27/08, *yavin at gmx.com <mailto:yavin at gmx.com>* <yavin at gmx.com 
>> <mailto:yavin at gmx.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey everybody,
>>
>>     I'm an old Debian user and I wonder which benefits YDL (Red Hat
>>     based)
>>     provides in comparison with other distros. A friend of mine
>>     installed a
>>     ppc build of Ubuntu on his PS3 and as I'm used to Debians apt I think
>>     about to give it a try. The problem is I don't know if there are
>>     other
>>     reasons like hardware support issues which are pro YDL.
>>
>>     May be a developer/maintainer of YDL or a experienced user can
>>     compare
>>     YDL to "normal" distros. Why should I use YDL instead of Fedora
>>     or Ubuntu?
>>
>>     Greetings from Germany
>>     Kai
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