Security - Yellow Dog Linux has the support of thousands of programmers who constantly
develop patches and updates for software, as opposed to depending on a commercial
entity to release patches (or doing them yourself).
Ease of administration/use - Linux (and particularly Fedora, on which Yellow Dog
Linux is based) is so widely deployed, with more installations occurring every day, that
it's understood and managed by a large user/administrator group. It's often easier for system
administrators and users to complete tasks on a familiar system with a standard
interface.
Mac-on-Linux - Mac-on-Linux software enables you to run Mac OS X (10.1 through
10.3.3), Mac OS 7.5.2 through 9.2.2, or another instance of Linux within your active
Yellow Dog Linux session on a PowerPC system, so you get the best of both worlds.
A few different versions of Yellow Dog Linux are available, covering a wide spectrum of current
and legacy PowerPC hardware:
Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2 - This version provides support for Power Architecture Cell
processors, cell-based systems such as Sony PlayStation 3, Mercury Computer systems,
and IBM and Apple systems that use G5, IBM 970, G4, and G3 PowerPC processors.
Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 - An updated and enhanced release of Yellow Dog Linux that
provides full support for all of the specialized hardware found in the latest PowerPC Mac
Minis and G5 systems, as well as continued support for G3 and G4 systems.
Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 - The last version of Yellow Dog Linux (October 1, 2004) to
support the beige G3 hardware (66 MHz) and previous Old World ROM Macs. This version
also supports most of the same hardware that Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 supports.
Y-HPC -- A variation of Yellow Dog based on the 64-bit Fedora Core 5.0 version of
Linux. This version is for high-performance computing and focuses on offering high
performance support for Xserve G5s or cluster nodes.
The continuation/full version of this article read on site -
www.podgrid.org - Linux Bible
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