Subject: Re: Linux (YDL) vs. Linux (Intel flavours)
From: Rich Dolinsky (r.e.dolinsky@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 08:41:24 MST
on 3/14/02 10:15 AM, Paul J. Lucas at pauljlucas@mac.com wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Eric D. wrote:
>
>> How do the Intel builds compare to the YDL for Mac (or the other Linuxes for
>> Mac)? I presume there may be flavours that are simpler and have a more
>> refined user interfaces than YDL or are they all effectively the same?
>
> The only things distros do is repackage what other people have
> written, write their own installers, and maybe mess around with
> files in /etc. That's pretty much it. They do not make
> kernels or UIs.
>
> This seems to be the hardest thing for newbies to grasp. YDL
> is *not* as OS. There is just one Linux kernel (modulo PPC
> patches that people like Ben H. and Paul Mackerras do, but even
> these are not YDL-specific: they are PPC specific and they
> eventually get incorporated into the main Linux source tree).
> XFree86 (modulo support for your particular graphics card),
> WindowMaker, AfterStep, Gnome, KDE, etc, are all *exactly* the
> same.
>
> - Paul
>
Then why do x86 binaries not work on ppc without a recompile.
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