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
> > >
> > >
> >
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