Subject: Re: Linux (YDL) vs. Linux (Intel flavours)
From: Rich Dolinsky (r.e.dolinsky@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 09:01:42 MST
I understand the diffs between risc and cisc and different processors and
instructions..it was a rhetorical question....kinda liek these are not
exactly the same
on 3/14/02 7:59 PM, Patrick Ladam at ladam@smbh.smbh.univ-paris13.fr wrote:
> 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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