Why Yellowdog?

[Andrew Mason]

Not sure if you guys realize but BSD is basically UNIX, it just hasn't paid 
for UNIX certification by the Open Group.  I think even Linux could be UNIX 
if it fit all the criteria and someone bothered/wanted to pay for it. As far 
as i know the criteria is mainly technical and there isn't much/anything in 
the way of licensing but to be honest I haven't actually looked at what is 
needed so i could be wrong. 

Certainly some UNIX variants such as SCO's are just plain rubbish, and 
net/dragon/open/freeBSD are so far ahead of it, it's really not funny. 

Andrew 


On Thursday 20 January 2005 1:40 am, James Cass wrote:
> Joel -
>
> I am a long-time Mac enthusiast/believer/user.  The overall positive
> outcome for me in using YDL4 is that it eased my introduction into
> RedHat/Fedora.  I've been using YDL since YDL3.  This past Christmas I
> bought a Shuttle XPC computer (http://www.shuttle.com) on which I now
> have Fedora Core 3 runnning (and WinXP).  But don't tell anyone abut
> WinXP.  ;-P   Actually, I guess you could say that Apple, via MacOSX,
> introduced me to the power and beauty of Unix (even though MacOSX is
> only "based" on BSD).
>
> - James
>
> On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Joel McCracken wrote:
> > I've been a Linux fan since I've tried it. I really like its
> > flexibility and the power a user has over his operating system.
> >
> > I just recently bought an Ibook g4, and I've downloaded and installed
> > YDL 4. The sound didn't work as desired (I've been skimming this
> > mailing list for months, and I've seen how to fix it), and there isn't
> > support for airport extreme.
> >
> > Of course, Linux has its values. The ability to control your operating
> > system is second to none.
> >
> > My problem is, I love OSX. Some of it is closed source, which is fine,
> > but it is a quality OS, in my opinion. I don't have any pililosophical
> > differences with Apple. OSX is easy to use, but one can do a lot of
> > advanced things with it; my biggest joy is using gcc and vi.
> >
> > So, I guess my question is, why use Linux over OSX?
> >
> > Sorry if this has been discussed/answered before. Just flame me if it
> > has :)
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