YDL vs. Debian, etc.

[Ron Smith]

Back in the YDL 2.1 days I was comparing it to SuSE 7.x PPC. I don't 
know if it still holds true, but in my experience then, SuSE had quite 
a few more applications that "just worked" straight out of the box upon 
a default installation. I don't  know the current state of SuSE in that 
regard, but the availability of applications for YDL has certainly 
improved. If you are using an old world machine, they both use BootX 
and that works just fine. If you are using a new world machine, I think 
YDL with yaboot is much nicer and easier to manage than SuSE was at 
that time. Also at that time SuSE was very closely tied to KDE and I 
prefer gnome over KDE.

My biggest complaint with SuSE (PPC or x86) is that while it comes with 
tons of applications (like 4 or 5 CDs worth), many of them don't work. 
A lot of them won't even compile from the included source.

Good luck,

-Ron

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 11:18 AM, Bradley Martin wrote:

> --does anybody out there have experience w/
> other PPC Linux distributions? How's Debian work or
> Suse or Mandrake's ports?