Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:23:52 -0700 (MST)
This brings up another point... as the web site says we are working on
Blue G3 (Yosemite) support.. we hope to get Yellow Dog Linux running on
them very soon.
Dan
> Well, I went and looked at Yellow Dog's Web site (BTW, the address is
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/, not http://www.ydl.com/. Apparently the
> iMac is in fact officially supported:
>
> (from http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/faq_hardware.html)
>
> HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
>
> What hardware is officially supported by Yellow Dog Linux?
>
> Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server:
> - G3 Desktops, Towers, All-In-Ones, PowerBooks, Yosemites (coming soon),
> and iMacs.
>
> Yellow Dog Linux Gone Home:
> - G3 Desktops, Towers, All-In-Ones, PowerBooks, Yosemites (coming soon),
> and iMacs.
>
> It sounds to me as though Yellow Dog may in fact be the only distribution
> that supports the iMac. I personally have been very disappointed by
> LinuxPPC on my G3/266, and will be ordering Champion Server when it comes
> out.
>
> Matthew McCleary
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Evan Read wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > This list doesn't seem to have much traffic at the moment, so I thought I
> > would attempt to get a ball rolling. After looking at the various Linux
> > options (for both Mac and PC) I decided that YellowDogLinux was the most
> > iMac friendly and that perhaps their installer would really be something
> > special ;)
> >
> > Anyways, the iMac doesn't seem to be "Officially Supported". I thought
> > that the YDL guys put the iMac in its own catagory here
> > (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/faq_hardware.html) because they may
> > have had heaps of questions about it and they wanted to make it clear that
> > it would run in the iMac. But after reading a bit more closely (and after
> > reading the advice from YDL.com to come here if my machine wasn't
> > supported), I am not not so sure.
> >
> > Why is it that LinuxPPC, MkLinux and now even YDL are having so much damn
> > trouble supporting the iMac? I realise that Apple isn't so forthcoming
> > about G3 specs, but it is crazy to think that people won't be disapointed
> > that a machine that has been out for ages (in computer years) isn't well
> > supported.
> >
> > If lack of Official Support means no tech support, does that mean that if I
> > want to buy YDL and the manuals, will I get a cheaper price (ie, no 12
> > month of support)?
> >
> > Also, when can we get some screenshots? ;)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Evan Read
> >
> >
>
>
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