Subject: Re: Will we be able to update to YDL 2 ????
From: andu (undo@cloud9.net)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 11:13:59 MDT
Robert Vogt IV wrote:
>
> Andu,
>
> > If bang for buck was the issue why didn't you guys choose PC
> > boxes(Athlon) with say RH 6.2 or Slackware?
> > Just curious (nothing to do with YDL).
>
> This would be because anybody with half a brain knows that a $799
> iMac is better than a $2000 TBird (courtesy of one of our favorite RISC
> processors). :)
>
> I personally run RedHat on a 1 GHz TBird and YDL on a whole
> bunch'a Macs, and YDL wins hands-down for reliability and
> ease-of-configuration. The first time I installed RedHat (this was after
> I had used YDL for a while, so I musta been spoiled by the easy install) I
> spend the better part of 2 days getting the dang Ethernet card
> functioning......... and this was a 486!! The TBird would kernel panic
> whenever I tried to insert the module for my sound system, and I
> eventually had to recompile the 2.2.19 kernel with a backport of the
> drivers from 2.4 series kernels... The YDL version of activating sound:
>
> % modprobe dmasound
>
> Wow - MUCH better.... :)
>
> FYI - this is a PowerPC Linux mailing list... your comments are
> similar to the promotion of the Evil Empire on this list. ;)
Having read some of your previous posts I can see where you come from,
but as an intelligent person that you think you are you should leave
some room for doubt in your convictions until you grow up.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert Vogt IV
Andu
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