Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:42:07 -0600 (MDT)
Oh, as far as pdisk. It is on the YDL cdrom.
Specfically, it's version 0.7, build number 2.
I just used it this evening to partition 32GBs worth of drives to provide
a more efficient development system.
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Chris Leech wrote:
>
> > Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that Champion-1.0 is so similar to RH,
> > it's nice to already be familiar with how the system is set up.
> >
> > But the fact that it's just a RH recompile shows through _way_ to much.
> > For instance, why do I have fdisk and cfdisk (OK, so they're part of the
> > utils-linux package) which do me no good but not pfdisk? I had to
> > download the source RPM from LinuxPPC-pre-R5 and rebuild. Other important
> > Mac specifics seem to be missing too, like sndvolmix and the rest of
> > pmac-utils.
> > At least the apache update changed the default web page to indicate that I
> > was running YellowDog, not RedHat :)
> > Now, just why do the initscripts read /etc/redhat-release?
> >
> > Anyone else care to comment? Yes, I'd rather time be spent on porting
> > software than changing minor details like this - but it just doesn't seem
> > right in a commercial product. Or am I just being to picky?
>
> You're right. YDL is based on RedHat. We don't deny that. It's also based
> on RedHat for some very good reasons. Before I go into those, please
> understand that porting a linux distribution from one platform to another
> is a HUGE task. Linux/PPC developers including myself and people which
> have no affilation with our company have been working for over a year on a
> Glibc 2.0/2.1 based port. We have been falling Red Hat Rawhide since day
> one and everytime there's something knew available, we build it, make
> patches, submit our changes to Red Hat, etc.
>
> This is not a small task.. it's taken a year to get to the point it is
> now.
>
> Some key reasons for having another RedHat-like distribution....
>
> LinuxPPC, TurboLinux, and YellowDog Linux users can use the same
> RPMS. (assuming they are using preR5, and when TurboLinux's latest
> distribution is out for PPC).
>
> We, as a development community feel that it's VERY important to have
> a common codebase to work from.
>
> RedHat has developed a very solid distribution. They're installation
> program is very refined, they've written a great package management
> tool, and their code allows us to provide a more complete port to
> PowerPC
>
> Champion Server 1.0 was developed for a few reasons. First, it's
> a release for experienced users who need a current environment from
> which to use (glibc 2.1, egcs 1.1.x, etc.)
>
> Second, we know the power of PowerPC machines as servers. I've been
> using Linux on PowerPC in a server setting for over a year now. My
> machines have never seen ANY downtime (except for hardware upgrades).
>
> I also found that MKlinux and LinuxPPC were still missing elements
> that are commonplace on the x86, sparc, alpha Linux ports.
>
> These are not all of the reasons we developed the product, but
> those are some of the important factors.
>
> As far as just taking someones work and slapping it on a cd, we
> have no intention of doing that. Our developers are making active
> contributions to the Linux/PPC community and the Linux community as
> a whole.
>
> Our Gone Home distribution will introduce you all to a lot of the
> advancements that we're working on everyday.
>
> Red Hat's established a core distribution that we can work from,
> but there is a lot to be improved and that's what we're all about.
>
>
> Dan
>
> Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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