YDL 4.0

[Arch and Cath]

>From several decades working in Spacecraft Operations, I am much more
comfortable with evolutionary rather than step function changes --
particularly where software is concerned.   I would guess that the changes
in 4.0 could be yummed in a piece at a time and have a much more graceful
transition.   I also get to choose my bells and whistles.

I guess my attitude is tempered by my experience with YDL where both 2.3 and
3.0.1 as received out of the box had mol versions that were not compatible
with the kernel versions.

Arch

on 8/23/04 8:40 PM, Clinton MacDonald at clint.macdonald@sbcglobal.net
wrote:

> Arch:
> 
> Arch and Cath wrote:
>> This forum has had several discussions over the last months
>> about the impending (and evidently much anticipated) YDL 4.0
>> release. I am a little confused -- why do we care?
> 
> An excellent question! I look forward to reading our collective answers.
> 
> Some of us will not care; anyone running Yellow Dog Linux on Old World
> hardware that does not meet Terra Soft's minimum standards (Beige G3s
> and older are not supported), will be unable to upgrade (or, at least,
> unsupported). Also, anyone who does not like Red Hat's new directions
> for their Fedora branch of Red Hat Linux might not be interested.
> 
> I know that, as a Mac OS X junkie, I eagerly anticipate new releases of
> that operating system by Apple. Generally, annoying bugs are fixed and
> irresistible new features are added in Mac OS X updates. What are the
> bugs fixed and new features in YDL 4.0?
> 
> As always, I look forward to reading the discussion.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint
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