yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #955 - Message 2: Gentoo too new

[Andrew]

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> 
> In contrast, I bought Yellow Dog commercial system, followed the
> instructions exactly and  I was not able to load on any Apple
> computer.  I have several G3's, lots of old powermacs, etc.  I tried
> several of these.  As a result of my failure and what the rest of you
> guys obviously find so easy, I am recommending to a nonprofit where I
> serve on their board, with lots of powerbooks, not to migrate to
> YellowDog, which unfortunately I find "NRFPT".  I am also making note
> of this caveat in my upcoming book.  As for the Apple hardware, I am
> scrapping those systems as junk.

--sniped, too

I am truly astonished you couldn't successfully install YD on *any* of
the Macs you had available. YD is, indeed, the very first GNU/Linux
distribution I am really using as my everyday system. I tried
Gentoo2004.0, Debian3.0r1 and LinuxPPC 2000Q4. None of them gave me
satisfaction: Gentoo couldnt use my SCSI disk, Debian felt unpolished
and I got trouble with X11 server, LinuxPPC was, to say the least, quite
buggy... I got a problem with YellowDog 3, too. Same as Gentoo: no scsi
working. I need the scsi as the IDE is too small for a complete install,
like I use. Fortunatly, Anaconda was able to install stuffs on the SCSI.
A 5 seconds /etc/fstab editing and I was up and running. I could have
succeed with Gentoo, too, but I found YellowDog to fit my needs
perfectly: A desktop that just work, fast and slick, on my getting-old
300Mhz Mac. I personaly put this distro on TOP of my prefered distros.

 A friend tried Mandrake, RedHat, SUSE among a couple others on his 
build-by-himself x86. All the parts have been replaced at least once. He
is no cheap-guy; he gets the 'best-of' only. He must have spent +5000$
on this box. I owned 4 Macintosh and the only broken part I *ever* had
is a MATSHITA SCSI disk. I kinda destroyed a G3: running it overclocked
without *any* fans (not even the power-supply one) open-case for almost
2 years. It stopped working after I left a window open on a rainy day.
Stupid me!  I also blew the speaker on the LC475 twice. Back to our x86:
He found them all 'unusable' and heck, none of them would have his
winmodem to log on the net. He's been amazed to see I got a Linux
distribution fully functional, with all my devices working (this include
a JAZ, a CD-R, a Scanner, a firewire card, a USB add-on card and a
IDE/ATA to SCSI bridge but I've seen more on a single box) within a day
(installing everything from CDs took almost 5 hours). Considering I had
no experience at all with GNU/Linux (beside how to setup BootX) You
mentioned 9 years of experiences with GNU/Linux? I guess your out of
luck. 

I say thumbs up to TerraSoft!

0.02$
-Andrew