Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 released (Apple users, check this out!)
Apple makes ultra-cool hardware that runs it’s ultra-slick Mac OS X, but you can also run Linux on that same hardware, either all by itself or dual-booting with Mac OS X. That’s right: beautiful hardware, super-fast PowerPC processors, & Yellow Dog Linux. A new version of YDL just came out, and if you own a supported Apple machine, you oughta check it out.
Based around Fedora Core 2, you get KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.6.0, as well as OpenOffice 1.1.1, Mozilla 1.7 and 2.6.8 kernel (I hope that’s the 2.6.8.1 kernel - wasn’t there a pretty bad bug with 2.6.8?). And since YDL supports APT (as every good Linux distro should), you can update all your software to your heart’s content. Hello, bleeding edge!
Prices aren’t available yet (previous versions ranged from $25-$60), but check back at YDL.net, and info should be there in a couple of days. They’ve proviced ISO images for free download in the past, and presumably this will be announced some time soon.
You can read a couple of reviews of YDL 3 here and here.
