Terra Soft Launches Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 RC1 [LWN.net]

Terra Soft Solutions has announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 RC1. "Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 offers an incredible graphical interface with both KDE 3.2.2 and GNOME 2.6.0 desktops. Terra Soft's graphic designer Jake Fedie has prepared an all new presentation for both the Installer and post-install desktop environment. Included with v4.0 are OpenOffice 1.1.1, Rhythmbox 0.8.3, Mozilla 1.6 and development tools glibc 2.3.3 and gcc 3.3.3 built upon the 32-bit kernel 2.6.7."

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Terra Soft Launches Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 RC1

Posted Aug 5, 2004 19:06 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

Hardware accelerated 3D support?

That is the one show stopper for me - having only embarrasingly
sluggish software 3D rendering, I would never consider using mac hardware
as a linux workstation - x86 just has way too much price/performance
advantage, and great graphics/multimedia performance as well.

Although purely as a server, PPC might not be a bad idea - but as long as
x86 is the only realistic choice for desktop linux, why not just
standardize on it in the server room as well?

Here's a suggestion, IBM: If you want to jump start PPC adoption, get
with the folks at nvidia and work out how to get the nvidia 3D
graphics supported under linux/PPC, and see to it that multimedia works
well - that would really get the ball rolling.

Terra Soft Launches Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 RC1

Posted Aug 5, 2004 21:26 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

s/nvidia 3D graphics/x.org ATI drivers/g

as well, since these are in many existing iMacs, etc.

Yellow Dog works great on Macs incapable of OS X

Posted Aug 6, 2004 16:58 UTC (Fri) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]

I have a couple of older PPC Macs that aren't supported by MacOS X, but YellowDog 3 works just fine on them. I don't much care about intensive 3D graphics support (software 3DG is adequate for me), but they make great development platforms for ensuring your code doesn't have hidden x86-isms that hurt portability to those PPC or POWER based boxes.

I for one welcome our Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 overlor..., er, sorry, RC1s.

Yellow Dog works great on Macs incapable of OS X

Posted Aug 6, 2004 18:19 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

What generation do you mean when you say "older"? Are they OldWorld machines? There are some 6500s sitting around my office that the company is trying to get rid of, and I was contemplating grabbing one for running Linux, but wasn't sure whether they would work.

Yellow Dog works great on Macs incapable of OS X

Posted Aug 6, 2004 20:37 UTC (Fri) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]

Yeah, a 6500 should work fine.

I've got in running on Performa 6400, and there are some older models than that which will work (but not all of them, check the YD hardware support pages.