Last week RedHat entered into the PowerPC market, leaving Yellow Dog Linux, the distribution that is a port of RedHat to the PowerPC, in a precarious position. When SuSE and Mandrake also entered the PPC market, LinuxPPC was the first of the PPC-only Linux companies that put a break into their further development. As PPC-only Linux company, where is YDL will be standing in the near future? Read the editorial at TuxPPC.
Can Yellow Dog Learn New Tricks?
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Interesting that so many companies seem to be taking an interest in PPC these days… I can only presume this in response to the recent announcements relating the G5 and the PowerPC roadmap
Its a shame there isn’t a complimentary (open) hardware platform for this CPU… whatever happened to IBM’s POP (PowerPC Open Platform)?
Don’t you mean PREP (Powerpc REference Platform)..? that was the one Apple was pretending to be a part of for a while. The one before was CHRP iirc, Common Hardware Reference Platform.
I guess I could have missed POP.. I did fall asleep for a while.
http://www.openppc.org/news.html