Yellow Dog Linux

greetings,

after spending some 50+ hours just to get iso 1+2 by torrent, I discovered:

http://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/iso/


yellowdog-4.0-orion-20041107-install1.iso 19-Nov-2004 16:48 633M
yellowdog-4.0-orion-20041107-install2.iso 19-Nov-2004 16:52 636M
yellowdog-4.0-orion-20041107-install3.iso 19-Nov-2004 16:56 636M
yellowdog-4.0-orion-20041107-install4.iso 19-Nov-2004 16:57 162M

Are these the latest versions? Looks like it?

Thanks for this great forum, I shall probably need your help soon, as I am completely new to Linux. (writing this on a PC) The last time I had to compile code was wayyy back in 1988, Borland Turbo Pascal 3.0, those were the days

Yellow Dog Linux Mirror Sites
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USA
- http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/
- ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/
- ftp://mirror.services.wisc.edu/mirrors/ ... yellowdog/
- ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/dist ... yellowdog/
- ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/dis ... yellowdog/
- ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/YellowDog/
- ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/distributio ... YellowDog/
- http://ydl.oregonstate.edu
- ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/ydl
- rsync://ftp.oregonstate.edu::ydl
- ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/yellowdog/
- http://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/
- ftp://libre.oit.umass.edu/yellowdog/
- http://libre.oit.umass.edu/yellowdog/

Austria
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/yellowdog/
- http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/yellowdog/

Australia
- ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/yellowdog
- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/yellowdog

Canada
- http://gulus.USherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/yellowdog/
- http://open.mcgill.ca/ydl/

Japan
- ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Linux/yellowdog/

Hungary
- ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/yellowdog
- http://ftp.fsn.hu/ftp/pub/CDROM-Images/yellowdog
- rsync://ftp.fsn.hu/cdimages/yellowdog

Norway
- ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/yellowdog/

Sweden
- http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distri ... yellowdog/
- ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distrib ... yellowdog/

Switzerland
- ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/yellowdog/

United Kingdom
- ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.yellow ... yellowdog/
- http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.yello ... yellowdog/

actually in about 2 weeks there will be a new ver. out. 4.0.1 that will have all the bug fixes and some other refinements to it

I'm in the processing of downloading and burning the four ISOs mentioned above. Are these four sufficient? The YDL site makes reference to 8 CDs (four install and four source). Are the four source CDs only available via YDL store? And what am I missing without them?

Thank you for your time.

No the source cds are not necessary nor are they only availible from the store (most mirrors should have them) As i said before though; wait for the 4.0.1 isos to hit the public mirrors (or support TSS and buy a copy) Itll save you a lot of headaches. The source cds are good if you want to recompile a program w/ certain options

Okay, StarKnight83, you convinced me. I just ordered the 160Gb LaCie bootable firewire drive from the ydl store. In a more appropriate forum, I'll let you know how things go.

Thanks again for your time.