More information is available at
www.ydl.net.
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Running Yellow Dog Linux 12
Downloading and creating your own ISO??”You can download the distribution
from one of the many Linux mirrors as identified at http://yellowdoglinux.com/
resources/ftp_mirrors.shtml and burn your own ISO.
Purchasing online??”If you have a slow Internet connection and want to try Yellow Dog,
you can purchase burned CDs or DVDs (depending on the release of Yellow Dog that you
want to run) from various Linux stores on the Internet. Use your favorite search engine to
locate one near you.
Hardware Support
Hardware support with the Linux operating system was a major issue in the past, but as Linux??™s
popularity has grown, many device makers have provided access to their hardware drivers or in
some cases have created hardware drivers for Linux. While this is still an issue with hardware that
is brand new in the x86 community, the effects are lessened with the PowerPC platform because all
hardware is generally created to Apple??™s exacting standards. Terra Soft Solutions??™ focus on Apple
hardware and generally fewer variations in hardware add up to support being much faster for the
PowerPC platform.
One of the great things about Yellow Dog Linux is that as you dig into it, you discover that some of
the hardware compatibility issues faced by the x86 Linux crowd (such as with Winmodems, the
plethora of hardware configuration options, and so forth) are minimized or eliminated.
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