Re: Linux (YDL) vs. Linux (Intel flavours)


Subject: Re: Linux (YDL) vs. Linux (Intel flavours)
From: Patrick Ladam (ladam@smbh.smbh.univ-paris13.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 18:19:13 MST


Rich Dolinsky wrote:

> I understand the diffs between risc and cisc and different processors and
> instructions..it was a rhetorical question....

So if this was rhe-to-ri-cal, that's different

> 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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| Patrick LADAM                   |                               |
| Laboratoire CSSB                |     THE BIG BANG THEORY:      |
| UFR SMBH                        |                               |
| 74 rue Marcel Cachin            |   In the begining there was   |
| 93017 Bobigny CEDEX             |        nothing at all.        |
| >>> NEW e-mail: <<<             |                               |
| ladam@smbh.smbh.univ-paris13.fr |      Then, it exploded...     |
| Tel: 01 48 38 77 26 / 76 85     |                               |
| Fax: 01 48 38 77 77             |                               |
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