Subject: Re: When will the YDL 2.2 iso be available for FTP download?
From: johnathan spectre (jspectre@lords.com)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 06:40:00 MST
Well said. I love Macs (since my original 128) and I love Linux (been using it for years). Linux on the Mac is a great way to put some older machines to use as servers but it's always been second-class to the x86 world. It's fun to dabble with Linux on a Mac but when you get serious you can get far more powerful hardware that is better supported for a cheaper price, just as you pointed out. I'm running Red Hat 7.2 on my current PC server that has over 300g of raided space on a 1.2G Althon with 1.5G of ram that I paid a _fraction_ of what it would have cost me on the Mac platform. Sad, but true.
I've tried to like YDL but it seems to me every "release" has quite a few broken, critical packages (yup, audio support), updates don't go smoothly, and support isn't there (I've emailed them three times with questions and never gotten responses). I purchased 1.2.1 and 2.0 (directly from YDL) and 2.1 (from a local store, it was nice to see it on the shelf) but won't be buying further updates until YDL polishes their distro a little.
Other than Suse (which I've never liked very much) every other distro is available to download when it's released (to my knowledge). Check the great site <http://www.linuxiso.org> and see. Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, all release their ISOs on the net because they release solid distros that people will easily hand over money for. Terra Soft holding back ISOs, to me says they do not beleive in the strength of their release to stand on its own. They need to force people to purchase updates for previous releases that weren't very good to begin with.
-js
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