[ydl-gen] Help for a newbie

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Erick, Derick here!

Regarding your use of Macs and interest in YDL the problem is the  
kind of Macs you have.

If you have the Macs which Apple used to produce which use the G4/G5  
incarnations of the PowerPC CPU, then either earlier versions of YDL  
or the current version of YDL should run on them.  Just refer to the  
hardware compatibility pages of TSS; see here: http:// 
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/

However, if you have the current Intel based Macs, then YDL will not  
run on those.  If you remain interested in Linux you will have to  
choose an Intel based Linux distribution, there are plenty of those.

Yellow Dog Linux is exclusively dedicated to supporting PowerPC and  
Cell CPUs; the Cell being the modern generation or progression of the  
PowerPC CPU family.

I decided to highlight these distinctions as the information you  
provided omitted them entirely.  Unfortunately, it is exactly the CPU  
family which will determine, in this particular situation, whether  
you can or should use YDL or another Linux.

Open Directory appears to be an Apple product.  I cannot promise that  
either YDL or Intel based Linux could provide services to Open  
Directory, but that is more an Apple problem than Linux.  On the  
Yellow Dog Linux side there are many, many tools to serve and  
exchange data with all kinds of systems; it depends what you want to  
do.  Intel based Linux has even more tools than "we" do.  However in  
the tone of your question it should not be difficult to setup your  
Macs as clients to either Intel or PowerPC/Cell based servers running  
Linux.

You may have to either use Darwin or other GPL projects (to be  
installed into Darwin) to replace or augment whatever Apple provided  
so that your computers behave as you wish as clients to Linux  
servers.  Of course, Apple's way of seeing and doing things has  
caused many much elation and frustration/disappointment.  The issue  
is what Apple included or removed from Darwin and what you may need  
to put back in so that your needs or plans can be actualized.

Best wishes, Derick.

On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:58 PM, pocatellomac at cableone.net wrote:

> Hello
>
> My name is Erick I'm the system admin for two Mac based labs at  
> Idaho State University.  We are currently running an open
> directory server off of Panther server.  We upgraded to leopard  
> clients and open directory doesn't work that well.  I'm thinking of
> migrating our server to Yellow dog linux, but need to know if you  
> can serve Macs and open directory from Linux.  Has anyone
> done this.  My machine is a Dual dual core 2.5 Ghz G5 with 8GB of  
> RAM and 2 TB of storage.
>
> Any Suggestions?
>
> Erick
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