Mac's with Yellow dog pre-installed ???

[risc]

Bah. A working Linux desktop is as easy to get as a working OS X desktop. You just have to know how to read and have some interest in actually controlling how your computer functions...

LOL! I came to OS X after using Linux as my primary desktop OS since 1994. X11 isn't accelerated with a Radeon 9800 XT, you tell me how to get a good working desktop then? Or do you think VESA mode is working?

BTW - Way to act like a typical Linux user - great attitude

 

[risc]

You're usually bound for trouble when combining ati cards and free *nix.

Agreed, I wasn't expecting much - but didn't expect it to run as slow as it did. It's been a long time since I've used an unaccelerated X. Are any of the current graphics cards accelerated on PPC Linux though?

 

[Abstract]

Just intrested: Has anyone bought a machine from like Terra soft......Apple machines with OS X and yellow dog pre-installed with Apple warranty.

Just hold down the Option key during boot and it will boot to OS X...if not you get yellow dog

And the boot thing is that hard to do if you are installing linux after you got a mac so you get the dual boot

Thanks

Note: I didn't read this entire thread before replying (only the first page), but I just wanted to say something.

There's someone on the forums who works at Terrasoft and can get us a discount on Macs and I believe IBMs, but he doesn't post often, and I forgot who it is. However, I do remember that a few people here know him and can vouch for his legitimacy, including eyelikeart (a mod/admin here). However, that was years ago, and I don't know if asking a stranger about discounts while on the forums is a nice thing to do, even though I did almost buy a Powerbook off him. He only deals with the US, and after further research on both our parts, we found that it didn't make sense to have it shipped over to Canada, and so the deal fell through.

 

[sambo.]

i really gotta whack linux on my old G3/333 PB....

 

[Platform]

Note: I didn't read this entire thread before replying (only the first page), but I just wanted to say something.

There's someone on the forums who works at Terrasoft and can get us a discount on Macs and I believe IBMs, but he doesn't post often, and I forgot who it is. However, I do remember that a few people here know him and can vouch for his legitimacy, including eyelikeart (a mod/admin here). However, that was years ago, and I don't know if asking a stranger about discounts while on the forums is a nice thing to do, even though I did almost buy a Powerbook off him. He only deals with the US, and after further research on both our parts, we found that it didn't make sense to have it shipped over to Canada, and so the deal fell through.

Thanks a lot but.......not in the US

 

[Compile 'em all]

YDL sucks, imho. It's honestly one of the worst distributions out there as far as hardware support, configuration, speed, et cetera. Debian or Gentoo is (imho) a much better choice.

I second that. If you are serious about running GNU/Linux on the machine, try Debian (My distro of choice) or the more polished Ubuntu (PPC).
Before doing any paritioning you can try the Ubuntu Live CD and see if it detects the H/W and everything works fine.

 

[mkrishnan]

What does Linux Torvalds do on his Linux PowerMac, anyway? Does he run a purely test environment that he built himself, or does he use a distro?

 

[Ti_Poussin]

To guys (and girls of course) who want to check distro avaible for your Mac, check this web site, it's a good start:
http://penguinppc.org/

My opinion on Yellow Dog was bad, I hate rpm package, since Yellow Dog is base on Red Hat if I remember well (someone can confirm?).

I personnaly would go with Ubuntu for starting, and move to Gentoo after. Gentoo is really powerfull, but a little hard to master.

 

[Compile 'em all]

What does Linux Torvalds do on his Linux PowerMac, anyway? Does he run a purely test environment that he built himself, or does he use a distro?

IIRC he uses SuSe on the dual PowerMac. But what I am sure of is that he
uses KDE as the Desktop Environment (I have seen an interview with him
where he said he uses KDE). Rumored to use MicroEmacs as editor and pine
as mail reader.

 

[Compile 'em all]

My opinion on Yellow Dog was bad, I hate rpm package, since Yellow Dog is base on Red Hat if I remember well (someone can confirm?).

Yes, Yellow Dog Linux is a derivative of Fedora Core.

 

[mkrishnan]

IIRC he uses SuSe on the dual PowerMac. But what I am sure of is that he
uses KDE as the Desktop Environment (I have seen an interview with him
where he said he uses KDE). Rumored to use MicroEmacs as editor and pine
as mail reader.

Ahhhh, Pine. I miss that sucker. 'Twere simpler times. And KDE over Gnome any day.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

I personnaly would go with Ubuntu for starting, and move to Gentoo after. Gentoo is really powerfull, but a little hard to master.

I'll vouch for that...My first ever attempt at Linux was installing Debian on a Mac IIci (I got it working but it was uselessly slow). My next attempt was putting Gentoo on a PC and the learning curve was so steep I fell to my death. I havent felt that dumb since.

 

[Dm84]

Which PB do you have? Does Mandriva support audio and the scrolling trackpad?

I am obviously interested in these compatability issues with the Rev. D Powerbook, if I could just get decent support on this thing (airport included) then I would be all set

I have the PB that was released before January (I guess Rev. C) I have sound support with no problems. Since I don't have a scrolling trackpad I can't say if that works or not, but I know the regular trackpad works, as do USB mice. I believe Airport is not supported, although I have not tried it.

 

[Lazyhound]

Yes: Yaboot -- how to enclosed.

I'm not finding the necessary parameters listed anywhere in the documentation. Does anyone know them offhand, before I hit their mailing list?

EDIT: OK, I see how to set it to boot into OSX by default, but not how to make it boot to another OS by holding a key.

 

[mkrishnan]

EDIT: OK, I see how to set it to boot into OSX by default, but not how to make it boot to another OS by holding a key.

Is there a reason that being able to boot into another OS by holding a key, instead of using the menu, is important to you?

You can set the default OS in the menu to be whatever you want, so that it will always load that OS if you do nothing, and you can use the menu for the other OSes:

If nothing is selected from the boot menu when it appears, the system launches yaboot to start Linux. To launch another OS when no key is pressed, add a defaultos= line, for example defaultos=macos or defaultos=bsd.

And you can also set the timeout duration so that it happens quickly or slowly based on your preference....

 

[Lazyhound]

Is there a reason that being able to boot into another OS by holding a key, instead of using the menu, is important to you?

I'd just prefer for it to remain invisible, if possible.