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I hadn't thought about Yellow Dog Linux in years until seeing this. Discontinued in 2012, which is understandable after Apple's switch to Intel.


Ah the memories of yaboot blessing /dev/hda1 with holy penguin pee...!


Their great contribution to the rpm world is yum


For some reason it was the distro that ran best on the ps3, I seem to recall.


The reason is that Apple used PPC CPUs in their Mac's before Intel

And this was a distro geared towards PowerPC hardware.


These days it would be T2

https://t2sde.org/




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