Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors

Morganic writes "After checking periodically for the past couple days, I noticed that YDL 3.0 has hit the mirrors, a day early (in fact, the page above still says it's not available, but the mirrors at the bottom are carrying it). Anyone got a BitTorrent?"

Changes...

[icemax]

Yellow Dog Linux version 3.0 is Terra Soft's most recent release which offers a completely rebuilt Installer, 1300 packages on 6 CDs (3 Install, 3 Source), a unified KDE and GNOME desktop environment featuring shared menus, applications, and user interface. With enhanced support for the latest ATI and NVidia graphics cards (full 3D support for the ATI Radeon series), "video issues" are a thing of the past.

Very nice!

Re:Is Bit Torrent faster?

[mhesseltine]

I understand the concept of BitTorrent, but is it a faster download or is it just being nice to Terra Soft's poor little mirrors?

It's a bit of both. Because you are sharing up/down bandwidth with other users, you may find that you can d/l from 5 people each @ 200Kbps, for a d/l of 1Mbps, which may be more than the one mirror can handle. Also, since the downloads come from peers, it does reduce the bandwidth necessary for the mirror to provide.

For more info on BT, visit the official BitTorrent [bitconjurer.org] site.

There's nothing "OS X-only" about them

[daveschroeder]

Apple hasn't done anything to prevent any other OS from booting on the new machines; it simply isn't updating Mac OS 9 to support them any longer. Nothing sinister, nothing crippled, no "blocking".

That said, Yellow Dog Linux supports machines as the team has the chance to add such support. It already supports, for instance, the 12" PowerBook and the Xserve family. They may be a little behind the latest product introductions, but support will always be added.

Re:Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors

[jeblucas]

"Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Hits Mirrors" ...a handful of people rejoice! :-)

That's kind of unfair. YDL is just about the only hope for users of some older Macs [yellowdoglinux.com] to keep the machines interesting. My 225MHz PPC Performa 6500 is looking forward to it's life as a MAME [mame.net] box.

Re:any reviews

[Durin_Deathless]

To my understanding there was a bug in 2.0 that made it crawl. 2.3 was really snappy for me on a G3/300, as alway YMMV

Re:Yeah, it's out

[dadragon]

Late-2001 iBook. Works fine, but my first attempt at burning install1 didn't work so well, it crashed at 11%.

Next try was to re-burn install1 on a higher quality CD and it worked fine. It's reminds me of the descriptions of the latest Red Hat, but with mac add ons like pbbuttonsd and the like.

Re:Newbie question.

[ramdam]

Mac OSX only runs on modern mac with lot of RAM (read 256+) and good video card.

I have older PM 6500 and Imac Rev B that can't run Mac OS X (not supported, not enough RAM, not enough CPU power).

I've installed YellowDogLinux 2.3 on both, it just works ;-)

I don't feel the need to upgrade to 3.0 since they are used headless, as servers not as desktop.

All iMacs are supported

[Trurl's Machine]

Mac OSX only runs on modern mac with lot of RAM (read 256+) and good video card.

I have older PM 6500 and Imac Rev B that can't run Mac OS X (not supported, not enough RAM, not enough CPU power).

Sir - please don't spread misinformation, especially in a post marked 'informative" (and being informative indeed in other aspects). So far all iMacs are "supported" for the latest version of MacOS X - please check the official Jaguar requirements [apple.com]. It's only a a matter of adding RAM, but that's not really that expensive. You are right, of course, that the GUI would crawl on this graphics card, but

(a) I don't think it's a big problem on a machine running, as you described it, a "headless server"; Darwin can be boot up this way as good as Linux

(b) I honestly doubt whether KDE or GNOME would fare any better on this machine.

Re:OS X runs on any iMac; just upgrade to 128MB RA

[Virus1984]

OS X runs on any iMac, ever.

Nope, on my RevA iMac it boots, then crawls but never runs (with 160 MB of RAM).

It runs quite smoothly (but I still see the Beach Ball of Death at least once an hour) on my 400 MHz iMac DV, of course the 640MB of RAM help but a faster drive would help too.

Re:All iMacs are supported

[Trurl's Machine]

You're right Mac OS X's "officially" supported (I knew that, sorry for having generalized).

However, the idea I tried to outline is still valid. On older macs , installing Linux may be a better investment than Mac OSX:

To clarify: I didn't question the general idea, I was just in mood for some anal nitpicking ;-). Indeed, Linux seems to be the best way to run anything unixish on Macs from last century. What REALLY makes no point to me is running YDL on a brand-new Mac. If you are really zealous on open systems, don't launch them on proprietary hardware; if you aren't, there's nothing wrong with MacOS X.

Re:Yeah, it's out

[Anonymous Coward]

Check the MD5sums. I also had a problem, but the checksum on the 3rd CD iso doesn't check out.

Re:Yeah, it's out

[BrookHarty]

iso 3 is bad. Seems to be bad on all mirrors.

Mirrors?

[saintlupus]

Just remember, you can use apt-get to upgrade to v3.0 without having to download all the ISOs and such if you have a working 2.3 install.

(In fact, I installed 3.0 a couple weeks ago by doing this -- just add the new apt repositories for 3.0 to your sources.list file.)

--saint