Re: Red Hat vs YDL was Re: linux on lombard

2003-08-16 Thread Jan Musil
> I have an impression that Red Hat goes through frequent new builds. Is > this true of the PPC versions? Not really. The YDL release cycle not as frequent - at least the major releases. You can get updated versions of the packages when they become available using yum that loads them from the netw

Re: Red Hat vs YDL was Re: linux on lombard

2003-08-15 Thread Hamlin Krewson
I have an impression that Red Hat goes through frequent new builds. Is this true of the PPC versions? Also, (Don't laugh at my naivete) is Apple's processor going to be PPC much longer? Does the G5 and IBM's possible ongoing collaboration herald anything new on this front? Apple has no known pla

Red Hat vs YDL was Re: linux on lombard

2003-08-15 Thread Donald Keenan
On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 12:50 AM, Hamlin Krewson wrote: Well, it's the same GUI. The binaries are recompiled, the graphics are the same. Yellow Dog Linux is a very good version, and compares directly to Red Hat as that is what it is based on. Suse and Mandrake are both available for P