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Goodbye YellowDog Linux
October 07th, 2018
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TL;DR for this entire post: Stop using YellowDog Linux, switch to
Debian or one of the BSDs.
YDL last had a release in 2012-08-06 and they no longer have a
website... Many of their mirrors, such as
http://ydl.oregonstate.edu/ now contain Debian...
Due to these facts, I will chmod a-r all binaries I made for that
distro and removing references to it from my gophermaps. The files
will remain for a while, and if for some bizarre reason you need them,
just hit me up on IRC or email me and I'll gladly send them your way.
YellowDog Linux was a PowerPC-only distribution, but, I'll be frank,
multi-arch distros such as Debian (and at the time, {open}SuSE) nearly
always had a higher quality distribution than YDL did, even if PPC was
not their main focus. As openSUSE cannot make up their damn minds on
whether or not to support PPC (they've flip-flopped several times in
recent years), Debian is the only practical GNU/Linux distro left for
PPC.
13 years isn't a terribly short lifespan for a dog. R.I.P.
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