Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
cortinas@manassas.nssl.noaa.gov
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 07:24:28 MST
I have a G4 500 MHz DP machine and I went through a similiar analysis
of comparing YDL, SuSe and LinuxPPC and came up with the following
reasons to go with YDL:
(1) Company specializes in running Linux on the Mac, with 6 programmers
dedicated to this effort as opposed to maybe one at SuSE and
1-2 at LinuxPPC;
(2) Some altivec support, unlike SuSE;
(3) Some support for dual-processor Macs;
When I called SuSE support, I wasn't very happy with their response time.
>
> 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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