Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
From: Tony Yazbeck (tyazbeck@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 07:18:45 MST
Thanks Robert, I think I'll stick to YDL too.
> From: Robert Vogt IV <robert@arborhost.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:10:07 -0500 (EST)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
>
> Tony,
>
>> Has anyone had experience with both of these versions of Linux. How do they
>> compare? I've been doing some research, it seems like SuSe provide better
>> all around support and maintenance to its version of Linux. For example, I
>> am currently running YDL 1.2.1 and want to install Kde 2.0. At first glance,
>> I saw that on the KDE.org site, there was no ready rpm's ready for YDL, so I
>> wrote them an email asking them when they expect to have one. I got a
>> response almost immediately saying that Kde.org donšt provide the rpms for
>> the different platforms themselves, but rather the different companies
>> compile their versions and send it FDE to post on their site. KDE also
>> mentioned that YDL has never done so in the past and that I was better off
>> compiling a version myself. I'm a beginner to Linux, and while I'm learning
>> pretty quickly about the ins and outs of compiling, it can still be quite
>> intimidating. As a newcomer to Linux, I would much rather have most things
>> made easy so that I can more comfortably learn.
> In my opinion, the result of experience with both distributions,
> Yellow Dog Linux is MUCH better than SuSe. Additionally, you get into
> problems with SuSe's distributions, since they run on i386's and PPC's
> (among others, I believe). Also, SuSe's PPC development effort has been
> rather pitiful... :)
>
> In contast, I've never had a problem with YDL, and my company runs
> it on all of our G4 servers (we do Web Hosting).
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert Vogt IV
> CEO
> ArborHost
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