Yha, I have a number of reasons to use OS X over other PPC *Nix's too... But what I want to know is why are people taking OS X off of their machine and putting YDL or Ubuntu on in it's place... On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Jerry Davis wrote: > On Monday 14 February 2005 04:57 pm, Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote: > > Just out of curiosity > > I use OS X with my PB, and I like it so much I am willing to pay for an > > upgrade or two. However I have heard of people stripping off the OSX that > > came with their Mac in favor of PPC Linux. My question is why; what do > > YellowDog, or Ubuntu offer that OS X does not? (Basically what am I missing > > out on) > > > > I'll tell you in one word Quicken. > My wife Ellen, has used Quicken for over 12 years. > She will NOT use anything else. > She has ALL of our accounts on it. She used Windows for all of those years > for mostly that reason. Now I have gotten her off of Windows and on to > OS X because Quicken runs on it. She couldn't import all of our accounts > at once, but was able to bring it in piece-meal. She likes Quicken on > OS X better than on Windows. > > And because of that, we can say that our house is Windows Free. > > I however have no such constraint. I have used Linux only for quite a few > years. > > > > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Ted Gould wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:00 -0700, Dierk Seeburg wrote: > > > >Tried myself on the YDL 4.0 PPC on an eMac (800Mhz,1Gb) using CDs made > > > >from the 4 ISO images I downloaded from YD. yaboot goes through a bunch > > > >of checks and dies when it cannot "find a screen" although it found an > > > >eMac monitor earlier in the bootup sequence - any ideas? > > > > > > > >If not, anyone want the 4 YDL 4.0 PPC discs? Or maybe someone can > > > >recommend another distro for PPC? > > > > > > I don't know if it will behave differently, but I use Ubuntu on my > > > Powerbook. There is a Gnoppix live CD that I've used which will boot on > > > PPC also -- you might try that to see if it works first. > > > > > > --Ted > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > Registered Linux User: 275424 > Today's Fortune: No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was > his turn next. > -- E.W. Howe > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss