Subj : Re: What's go'n on...
To   : RENE LAEDERACH
From : DENNIS SMITH
Date : Thu Jan 15 2004 14:35:00

Hi Rene,
-=> RENE LAEDERACH wrote to DENNIS SMITH <=-

 RL> DENNIS SMITH wrote to WENDELL WATANABE:
 DS> What was the linux distro was it ? YDL is working out for some of the
 DS> Amigans who had unhappiness in Debian. Since MAI is the author of Teron
 DS> and the A1, it may the better taylored linux for A1s. I'm taking notes
 DS> for now! ;-)

 RL> YDL is Yellow Dog Linux ans so far only supported on Mac hardware
 RL> AFAIK,

 Mai.com supports their YDL for AmigaOne! I have been reading that they
customized the kernel to handle the DMA problems that occur in the 2.4.x
kernels. Linux is not up to date to the new bus of ArticiaS becasue they
are i386 & Unix origins. OS4.x has nothing to do with these problems. :) 
And that, dear hearts, is absolutely good news! =:o  

 RL> It's a cool distro and very Redhat-like, so most stuff ports over if it
 RL> doesn't
 RL>  do something nasty to the hardware (the scanner backend SANE works
 RL> well, e.g.).

 RL> email: mussi@snoop.alphanet.ch | "If you're taking flak,
 RL> Fidonet: 2:301/133             | you're above the target."

Well, I'm kind of on target with the A1 and take a lot of linux flak! :)
Dennis
.... I'm kind of - Future Shocked - using the AmigaONE!
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