Star Why I Ditched MacOSX for Linux - A Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Review
Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
Linux I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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I was very excited to try YDL when it became publically available for download several weeks ago. For some reason it didn't the monitor and the video card which I found strange because YDL 2.3 was able to for its' graphical install. For the record i'm using a 500mhz imac w/ Rage 128.

I too had the delayed CUPS startup during first boot. No biggie. However, on both YDL 2.3 and 3.0 for some reason it offsets the monitor to the left about half an inch and there's also a high-piched squealing which seems to happen anytime I move my mouse. It also happened on 2.3

The thing that was the worst for YDL 3.0 was whenever I would logged out the screen would go black. I was not able to kill X and had to reboot.

I want to give the folks at YDL the benefit of the doubt because they are a PPC-only distro but frankly I've had nothing but problems and I'm much happier with Mandrake 9.1

There's my 2¢. ;)