General Linux questions

[Marc Stergionis]

At sometime around 5:32 PM -0500 on 10/1/02, lowell wrote thus:
>IIRC, Mandrake is new world only (G3 and above); anybody know for sure?
>
>jasontine@access-4-free.com wrote:
>
>>2) Looking at both the Mandrake and Yellow Dog websites, it seems 
>>as if Mandrake has more resources behind it, and possibly would be 
>>a better long-term solution.  However, as they provide solutions 
>>primarily for the Intel crowd, I am not sure of their dedication to 
>>the PPC platform.  What are the main benefits to Yello Dog Linux 
>>over Mandrake?

Lowell may be right ... I tried to  install Mandrake on an 8600 last 
year and it wouldn't take, but when I started checking it out it 
appeared it was because Mandrake was looking for an IDE drive to 
install on (wouldn't install on SCSI), although I could be wrong. New 
World would seem to make more sense ...

Mandrake ran awesome on the G4-400 at the office though.

Anyway, Jason could try on the 6400 since it  *does*  have an IDE HD 
although it's true that YDL is geared to the Mac, indeed *built* for 
the Mac.

Mandrake I don't believe has any mailing lists devoted to the Mac. 
Even distros such as SuSE and Debian have Mac lists (ie. SuSE-ppc and 
Debian-PPC).

That said, I  don't know that YDL or Mandrake would be any faster on 
a 6400 than OS 9.1, or even 8.6 -- unless you do a limited install 
geared to email/web and K-Office or something and make sure  you 
leave a good chunk of empty HD space.

OS 8.6 with Carbon extensions can run pretty up-to-date software.

My $.02.

-ms
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