[ydl-gen] YDL vs Debian based distros

[furio ercolessi]

> >> 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?

I first tried installing Debian (on a dual G5 PowerMac), and eventually
gave up due to a parted (Debian partitioner) bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354951
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378593
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388085
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443272
(apparently all instances of the same bug).
The issue affects people that want to be able to boot OSX and Linux 
from the same drive.

Installation of YDL worked immediately on the same partitions
that were giving problems with Debian.  I did not try other distros.

furio