Re: [MacPerl] [OT] Yellow Dog Linux, anyone?

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 10:52 PM -0800 12/2/98, Patrick Beart wrote:

} Folks:
}
} 	As excited as I am about learning PERL, with the help of the
} MacPerl book and this list, I have to say that seeing this notice on the
} MacInTouch Web site last week made me jump for joy.
}
} 		http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
}
} 	I know that several of you have close ties to Prime Time Freeware,
} and I certainly don't want to present this as competition or as
} "flame-bait". I just love that there is going to be a product out there
} that gives us UNIX _and_ support for a mere $50 - not to mention that it is
} scheduled to appear about 6 months ahead of Apple's Mac OSX (which
} proportedly includes some kind of UNIX, also.)

Why is this so marvelous? There are at least three seperate Linux
distributions available now for PPC Macs, MkLinux, the LinuxPPC produced
and distributed by www.linuxppc.org, and Debian (the first of the big boys
to release a LinuxPPC).   I think I read that RedHat is selling Mk,
although not supporting it.  So who among the LinuxPPC big guns is working
for yellowdog that I'm supposed to be impressed?  (i.e. why should I buy
their $50 CD when I can buy the PTF or www.linuxppc.org CD?)


}
} 	Sorry for the OT post, considering the Survey thread, it seemed
} relevant to me.
}
}
} Patrick Beart
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