Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC


Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
From: Tony Yazbeck (tyazbeck@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 09:21:13 MST


Thanks to all of you who responded. The declared winner is officially:

YDL

I will stick to that too....now if anyone can help getting it updated to KDE
2, I would be much appreciating.

Thanks

Tony

> From: Jim Kroger <kroger@Princeton.EDU>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:30:41 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
>
> I'm about at the same stage as you.
>
> 1. I checked out the websites for Suse, LinuxPPC, Yellow Dog, and
> Debian. I basically wanted to see how long it would take me to get
> confused and hopelessly lost (or whether I'd be able to find my way
> around). At the Debian site I was instantly lost, couldn't figure out
> how to download. Suse has a well-developed site but in the end i
> could not find the price, nor how to download. Yellow Dogs site was
> good, and LinuxPPC's was more amateurish, but at both I could find
> the downloads (with a little help here for YD).
>
> 2. I got the installation manuals for Yellow Dog and for LinuxPPC.
> The LinuxPPC one is not exactly bad, but rather confusing in the
> beginning, could use some revision for clarity. Yellow Dog's is a
> professional-level manual, as good as most manuals I've seen, clear,
> complete, and straightforward (as far as I've gotten anyway).
>
> 3. I subscribed to the mailing lists for the four distributions.
> After a week, Suse's has had two postings, Debian and LinuxPPC and
> Yellow Dog have had many. LinuxPPC is a little ahead of Debian, and
> Yellow Dog is almost double LinuxPPC. Clearly, if you need a
> distribution with the best supporting community, Yellow Dog is the
> winner. I have already gotten good help here.
>
> 4. So, I am getting Yellow Dog.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- At 8:02 AM -0500 on 11/3/00, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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 don't 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.
>>
>> Can anyone provide more info here?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> T.
>
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