Sunday, December 28, 2008
Done with Yellow Dog Linux
After using Yellow Dog 6.0 for a couple of months on my iBook G4, I tired of it, and sold the iBook. It worked fairly well, but I got tired of using gnash as a Flash substitute: too many sites require Flash these days. And it was noisy: the fan control was overzealous, which is probably good, but it mostly blew cool air out of the laptop. I'm ready to buy a laptop that's made for Linux - I'm thinking of getting the HP Mini 1000, once the Linux version comes out.
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Always wanted to try Yellow Dog and never got a chance. Debian has always been real solid on my PPC good to know on another distro it does too. I really like Gnash, this open source project is really coming a long way... great to see an open source project having already come to Flash 7 support... too bad it didn't work out for you though.
I ended up getting a Dell Mini 10v, for about the same amount I sold the iBook for. It's faster, silent, and the x86 architecture has simplified things, so I'm happy.
It looks like Yellow Dog is still doing interesting work, even now that the PS3 no longer supports alternative operating systems. They're working on integrating CUDA GPU processing in to Linux. Hopefully the big distros will start doing that as well.
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