Re: Time to switch?
IMO debian beats Yella Dog in almost every respect. Support for older
macs being one of those.
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 23:25, Thomas Carlson wrote:
> I have been using Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 on my old Powermac 9500 for
> quite a while. Except for problems with serial-port printing, I have
> been happy with it. Now, with the new 4.0 release, YDL has ceased to
> "officially" support pre-G3 machines. This says to me, "You're on your
> own, Jack." Is Debian now a better choice for those of us who are
> still using BootX to dual-boot Linux on old world machines?
>
> I am using the kernel argument: video=atyfb:vmode:13,cmode:32
> successfully with YDL and have X up and running just fine. Will that
> work for Debian, as well?
>
> Any advice is welcome.
>
> Tom
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