This chapter aims at introducing you to Yellow Dog Linux and how it is
moving forward to cater to those who love Apple??™s PowerPC hardware but
are drawn to Linux.
Yellow Dog Linux is not included on the CD or DVD that come with
this book. You can purchase Yellow Dog Linux from Terra Soft Solutions
(www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store) or download the four-CD installation
set from a Yellow Dog Linux mirror site (for a list of mirror sites, see
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/resources/ftp_mirrors.shtml).
See Appendix A for information on burning CDs.
Understanding Yellow Dog Linux
Terra Soft Solutions has focused its efforts on making Yellow Dog Linux
work for a wide range of Apple products, which has resulted in less chance
of hardware incompatibilities. This is one of the distribution??™s strengths.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Digging into Yellow Dog Linux
Installing Yellow Dog Linux
Running Mac-on-Linux
Running
Yellow Dog Linux
Another heartening note is that Terra Soft Solutions is an Apple Authorized OEM Value Added
Reseller with permission from Apple to install Linux on Apple hardware, retaining any hardware
warranties provided by Apple.
The latest Apple hardware uses x86 chips in the form of Intel??™s Cure Duo processors.
Yellow Dog Linux will not work on these systems because that??™s not Terra Soft??™s mission.
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