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Goodbye YellowDog Linux |
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October 07th, 2018 |
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TL;DR for this entire post: Stop using YellowDog Linux, switch to |
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Debian or one of the BSDs. |
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YDL last had a release in 2012-08-06 and they no longer have a |
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website... Many of their mirrors, such as |
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http://ydl.oregonstate.edu/ now contain Debian... |
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Due to these facts, I will chmod a-r all binaries I made for that |
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distro and removing references to it from my gophermaps. The files |
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will remain for a while, and if for some bizarre reason you need them, |
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just hit me up on IRC or email me and I'll gladly send them your way. |
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YellowDog Linux was a PowerPC-only distribution, but, I'll be frank, |
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multi-arch distros such as Debian (and at the time, {open}SuSE) nearly |
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always had a higher quality distribution than YDL did, even if PPC was |
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not their main focus. As openSUSE cannot make up their damn minds on |
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whether or not to support PPC (they've flip-flopped several times in |
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recent years), Debian is the only practical GNU/Linux distro left for |
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PPC. |
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13 years isn't a terribly short lifespan for a dog. R.I.P. |
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Try OpenBSD for macppc, it rocks :D |
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Posted Sun 4 Nov 12:00:43 UTC 2018 by 92.176.104.185 |
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