What's the reason for Yellow Dog?

[Marc]

Op 19-sep-04 om 06:55 heeft ivan low het volgende geschreven:

> Hi, I'm user of OS 9 for years and now since everything going for OS 
> X, then my iMac slot loading  500 G3 will not have enough power to run 
> OS X at the speed of OS 9. So I heard of the Yellow Dog and thought 
> it's my answer to my problem. The fact is that I had always wanted a 
> upgrade version of everything, like browser, word processor, 
> programming tool. All of this have stop developing new version for OS 
> 9.
> When I got the first time boot up I was very happy and everything seem 
> to be working right.
> So I was thinking that now finally I'm fully compatible with the rest 
> of the open source community but later on, the first thing I do was to 
> download some software from the net and realize that PPC package were 
> very limited. Some of those cool software for Linux does not work on 
> my platform. As soon as I know that, I had gone back to my OS 9.
> So one thing I'm very curious about, since PPC package is not widely 
> available then what is your reason to get the Yellow Dog?
>

What kind of linux did you install?
I cannot boot from the YDL3.0.1 cdrom on my imac 500mhz-blue cdrw
(slot-loading)

Marc