Subject: Re: Linux (YDL) vs. Linux (Intel flavours)
From: Patrick Ladam (ladam@smbh.smbh.univ-paris13.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 17:59:23 MST
Rich Dolinsky wrote:
> 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.
Try to guess...
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