ACEFOMIQUZ wrote:I mean if Yellow Dog Linux 7.0 will not come,can the distro be launched all by our community?
Since the core YDL code is open source, you're more than welcome to take a snapshot of the 6.2 tree and launch your own distro. Since it's your distro, you can base it off CentOS packages or Crux or Fedora or Ubuntu or whatever you like.
Conversely, it may be easiest to just fork the Crux PPC code and introduce the PS3/Cell/BE changes from Yellow Dog into it. Possibly extend Crux for official Cell support, if it's not there already.
The actual term Yellow Dog is probably copyrighted by Fixstars and can't be reused. Only Fixstars can release a Yellow Dog Linux - by name. Just like, although CentOS is a direct recompile from the Red Hat Enterprise source code, they can't call it Red Hat, since that's a copyrighted name.
As for whether or not our community - i.e. the folks on this board - will officially launch their own YDL-like distro remains to be seen.
However, I'm guessing for the most part the answer is going to be "no".
There's a lot of work involved in creating and maintaining your own distro. That's why I like YDL - I could contribute to it without being responsible for it. It was closest to a distro I'd create myself without actually creating it.
Also - since Sony has basically nixed Linux for the Cell in current and future PS3s, and, with Apple's switch to Intel, PowerPC Macs are now a finite resource, I don't see an extremely active PowerPC Linux community moving forward. It will probably ebb back to the hobbyist market it was before the release of the PS3.
In all likelihood, most folks here will migrate to Intel-based Linuxes. That's where the current hardware support is the most plentiful and cheap.
Cheers,
Paul