DistroWatch reports that Terra Soft Solutions has updated its Yellow Dog Linux product to version 3.0.1: “Yellow Dog Linux v3.0.1 ships with all errata as of 2003/09/04, kernel 2.4.22 (Xserve rev2, PowerBook 17″ rev1 sans fan support), and improved installer (no more dual drive bug!). Available now from the Terra Soft Store and YDL.net Enhanced accounts.” See the announcement on the distribution’s home page and the YDL 3.0 errata page for further details. Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 is available from the Terra Soft Store from US$25 or to members of the US$5-per-month YDL.net Enhanced subscription service.
Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 Released
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Wow, is this the “toast your 17” PB and get another one for free” edition?
If this really means that the fan is not going to work in the 17″PB, this might really kill one or the other CPU in hot countries. Scary.
What we can’t do is control the level of the fans.
Even without this precision, we haven’t yet seen
any problems with the PB 17″. That said, we’re
warning folks that if they choose to try Linux, watch
their machines.
is this just patches applied with new kernel yellowdog 3.0 ?
or am i missing something?
Andy,
Yes… hence the 3.0.1. We needed to master new CDs,
and so we threw all the errata (security, etc.) from the original release (several hundred megs) and put it on
the new CDs with a new kernel. That’s basically it.
YDL 3 users that run YUM on occasion don’t really have any
benefit to “upgrading”.
i really think that the operating system has no business controlling the fan that saves your cpu.
but a f’n logic chip, a sensor and be done with it.
i had an inspiron that locked up, with the cpu at a 100% in xp…the fan never kicked in on high because the os was falling over.
makes for a nice fried laptop.
it’s so f’n simple. temperature goes up, so does fan. it should be done completely in hardware.
No rush ’cause mines back ordered and won’t make it until mid October, but how is G5 support coming along? Will the fans be supported?
I agree.
I was browsing the SuSE FTP and there is a PPC64 folder — maybe something is in the works..?
> I was browsing the SuSE FTP and there is a PPC64 folder — maybe
> something is in the works..?
I don’t know but it wouldn’t surprise me. Yellowdog has already announced their intentions to support the G5. Looks like we’ll have 5 OSs/Distros to choose for our G5s in not long if NetBSD and OpenBSD release ports soon (as I am sure they will).
While I was subscribed to the YDL lists, many users (myself included) were hit with bugs in two very important programs:
– redhat-config-network didn’t work with airport cards until you manually added a line in a text file
– OpenOffice.org’s PASTE WAS DISABLED…. (So one had to pull down a tar.gz of OOo1.1beta…)
It sounds like these problems weren’t fixed. (Or even acknowledged by Terrasoft.)
When that comes out, I plan on doing a fresh install, so I will create a partition for YDL at the same time. I’ve wanted to install YDL on my iMac, but I don’t want to destroy my OS X partition.
Does any body know if there’s any hard drive repartition software available for the Mac, like Partition Magic for the PC?
It seems that the eMac is still officially unsupported.
Does anyone tried to to install this distribution of this hardware? Is there any particular problems, is everything supported?
I’ve wanted to try YDL on my 12″ Powerbook for some time now. I just can’t do it without Airport Extreme support in the distro. Damn you Broadcom!!!!
first off… thanks dan for curing my ignorance… i appreciate that….
as to fixing redhat-config-network and several other bugs i encountered (which i have forgotten by now) i found that installing the rawhide versions of the packages generally fixed the problems…
as to ooo… true that is annoying and i wish it could get fixed…
Speaking of redhat-config-[something] none of them worked for me. Each and every rehat-config-[…] script would crash and tell me to fill out a bug report, which is difficult when I can’t even setup networking
But I’ve been using Gentoo so I’m fairly trained in doing things the hard way. I’m just wondering if I’m the only one who experienced this problem. I downloaded the 3.0 ISOs rather than buying the retail box. Could that make a difference?
I think I recall there being some problem with apt-get on YDL. Was that fixed? Was apt-get removed in favor of yum?
How does yum compare with apt-get? I’m a debian user, but I’ve got my YDL COTS box at home (including the cool tee-shirt
and was thinking of trying YDL again, except that now I’m spoiled from using apt-get. 
Let me know when the first snotty email arrives in your inbox letting you know that you need to hit ctrl key and not the apple key to use the copy and paste function in OO, you stupid apple user.
(When I mentioned that paste didn’t work in the OO bundled with YDL some weeks back, not only did I get several snippy and insulting posts on these boards, but several emails. Because, gee, there’s no such thing as a half-assed, half-baked Linux program.)
Bad news : Now, if you want to use your iBook’s modem under Linux, you have to pay 15$ !!!
see http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hcf/downloads.php
Does any body know if there’s any hard drive repartition software available for the Mac, like Partition Magic for the PC?
FWB makes Partition ToolKit (start at http://www.fwb.com/html/solutions_from_fwb.html ) that does a lot of what you need.
It has one big drawback compared to the PC utilities: you can shrink an existing partition and make a new one in the resulting space, but you can’t combine partitions or move them around (can’t resize larger.) I wanted to shrink an OS9 partition and make the neighboring OS X partition larger, no dice.
That probably won’t be an issue if you’re making a new partition to install Linux.
I have YDL 3.0 installed on a G4 dual 450mhz with the 17 inch studio display CRT ati rage 128 pro. and I cannot get X to come up. if anyone is interested in helping me I will email them the XF86Config and the error log