Description:
Linux on PPC hardware? Yes. Yellow Dog Linux is the only Linux Distribution built specifically to fit the PowerPC hardware architecture most commonly used in Apple's Macintosh computers.

Admittedly, you have to be 'special' to run Linux on a Mac, but Linux users are special people aren't we? We like things a certain way. Working.

All jesting aside Macintosh computers are known for being reliable and fast. Just like Linux. Like peanut butter and chocolate they're better together. And going together they do very easily. Where most Linux installations have to probe for all kinds of hardware configurations 'the dog' only has to deal with Apple's hardware and does so quite nicely.

Based on Redhat's RPM Linux distribution running Yellow Dog (or YDL) is familiar territory for Linux heads, many of whom opt to dual boot their Macs.

Homepage: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com

App rating details:
Total votes: 4
Overall rating: 7.00

How'd this get started?: Founde, Kai Staats: "It was the first time I had been involved in designing and building a web server and it was turning into a long haul. I had spent the past three years surrounded by Linux users and had come to understand the power of Unix-based web servers. And while I was determined to serve websites from a Macintosh, I also knew a solution that met my needs as a developer and my clients' requirements for power, stability, and speed was a must-have.

The second person on my team was a quiet proponent of Macintosh, as well as a Linux developer. He researched MKLinux and LinuxPPC but had never tested his research. He believed a web server should be based on an architecture that allows rapid growth, maintenance from remote locations, and the support of more than one company.

We studied the three MacOS-based servers: WebStar, Web Server 4D, and MacTen. None offered a complete web server solution and each of them missed something: either a Perl development environment, true remote administration, or speed. I was feeling forced to buy an Intel-based server to work with Linux, even though it was going to be painful to spend $6000 or more on an Intel-based system. A system that was slower than Apple's and did not appear, from the articles I had read, to have a future of advances in speed equivalent to what Apple had already proven in the G3 series."


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