Yellow Dog Linux r0x0r5!!!!!

ghost_user_nameghost_user_name
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in macOS edited January 2014
I installed Yellow Dog Linux on my iBook dual-USB 500 w/combo tonight, as well as 9.2.1 and X.1.2. To summarize my experience with Yellow Dog on this iBook: Linux is now my main OS on this machine. :cool: This is so kewl!! Everything missing from OS X is here, plus you can still run Mac programs!! And I can forget about all those nasty dmg thingies in OS X that I hated so much, because now I have a native Linux distribution to run stuff on!! And the sound is AMAZING. I can play songs at probably like 2x the volume that OS X plays them on the iBook speakers. And it sounds EXCELLENT, seemingly better than OS X plays audio.



I am VERY impressed with Yellow Dog Linux. Plus, being based on RedHat, it is very familiar to me (I have a PC with RedHat at home).



Anyone with a Mac out there - install Linux. You'll never regret it!

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 14
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Ummm, this is the Mac OS X forum, not the software forum. If you're going to be annoying, at least be annoying in the right place
  • Reply 2 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    That's good to know. I just bought YBL and a new HD.
  • Reply 3 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by Scott H.:

    <strong>That's good to know. I just bought YBL and a new HD.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Bought?!
  • Reply 4 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by torifile:

    <strong>Ummm, this is the Mac OS X forum, not the software forum. If you're going to be annoying, at least be annoying in the right place </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Annoying? A-ha, no.



    Mac OS X - this is related to OS X.
  • Reply 5 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Yea bought. I just wanted the CDs. Don't have a burner either.
  • Reply 6 of 14
    stepsonstepson Posts: 95member
    You should give the ximian stuff a try (www.ximian.com). If you let it update your gnome to their version, it also installs the latest mozilla and evolution, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Evolution is really quite nice for mail, it works like outlook ... but is free and open source .
  • Reply 7 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by kHack:

    <strong>plus you can still run Mac programs!!</strong><hr></blockquote>After you reboot, though. Correct? Or is there a MINE app like WINE?



    [quote]<strong>And I can forget about all those nasty dmg thingies in OS X that I hated so much</strong><hr></blockquote>That's a stupid rant if I've ever heard one. While were at it, to hell with Stuffit files!! Down with GZIP!! Tar compression sux0r5!!



    [ 02-15-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]</p>
  • Reply 8 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

    <strong>That's a stupid rant if I've ever heard one. While were at it, to hell with Stuffit files!! Down with GZIP!! Tar compression sux0r5!!



    [ 02-15-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]</strong><hr></blockquote>





    No no - gzip and tar is very nice, and stuffit handles both very well. Disk images (.dmg files) are nasty, since they mount an additional volume. Plus, you have to then copy the stuff to your HD if you want to use it often. More inconvenience, but hey - that's what Apple is good at!
  • Reply 9 of 14
    sizzle chestsizzle chest Posts: 1,133member
    This is definitely the first time I've heard somebody complain about DMGs. So it mounts an additional volume, temporarily, until you copy the files to the location you want them on your hard drive.... what's wrong with that?
  • Reply 10 of 14
    mac gurumac guru Posts: 367member
    I find it hilarious that someone with "Mac OS X is the future" as a sig. is ranting about how YellowDog Linux is better than OS X and how Apple is the master of inconvenience... Hmmmm ironic?



    How bout you just go buy a YellowDog box and go find yourself a YDL forum to rave in... We here feel like we need to talk about APPLE products.



    Mac Guru



    [ 02-15-2002: Message edited by: Mac Guru ]</p>
  • Reply 11 of 14
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Yea man. Your kinds not wanted round these parts. Get lost.
  • Reply 12 of 14
    jethrojethro Posts: 34member
    [quote]Originally posted by sizzle chest:

    <strong>This is definitely the first time I've heard somebody complain about DMGs. So it mounts an additional volume, temporarily, until you copy the files to the location you want them on your hard drive.... what's wrong with that?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    It's slow and redundant for most software distribution. The only justifiable use is for when you'd be distributing an ISO type image where the user is going to burn it.



    For me, the ideal distribution model would be where the archive opened up as a folder. Roll it into the Finder code (like how you could open up the System file on older Mac OS) so no external programs are needed, or have a plug-in type of an architecture so developers could support a variety of formats.
  • Reply 13 of 14
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    [quote]Originally posted by kHack:

    <strong>



    Annoying? A-ha, no.

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    You're telling me what I find annoying? That's a good one.

    [quote]<strong>

    Mac OS X - this is related to OS X.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    How exactly is this related to OS X? You said this to start the thread:



    <strong> [quote]

    To summarize my experience with Yellow Dog on this iBook: Linux is now my main OS on this machine. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    What have you said about OS X? This is about Linux and that's fine but don't go saying it's about OS X. And maybe it's time you got a new sig.
  • Reply 14 of 14
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    I'm going to move this to the Software forum and hope that it improves.
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