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Urchin 4 continued our tradition of supporting way, way too many random platforms (Google still has Urchin 4 help: check out the OS support… ever heard of Yello

by fzn 10y ago

Urchin 4 continued our tradition of supporting way, way too many random platforms (Google still has Urchin 4 help: check out the OS support… ever heard of Yellow Dog Linux?). Heck yeah! Yellow Dog was one of first GNU/Linux distro I attempted to use, back in 2k2 (Or was it SUSE 6.4? Both ran too sluggishly for desktop use on my 5400/120, tho.) Here's the trial Urchin 5 for RedHat 6, btw. https://web.archive.org/web/20060223041140/http://download.urchin.com/urchin5/urchin5703_redhat9x.tar.gz https://web.archive.org/web/20060223041140/http://download.u...

chamakits 10y ago
I remember Yellow Dog Linux ONLY because it was the official Linux Distribution supported by the PS3. Didn't use it enough to know how it distinguished itself from other distros beyond that, but thats enough of a distinction for me!
- keepper 10y ago
  They live on in a small tool they built... The Yellowdog Updater, Modified. Now just known as yum.
  - Gevuloth 10y ago
    Now superceded by dnf on Fedora, sadly.
    - SwellJoe 10y ago
      Does anyone prefer the name dnf? I will likely never agree that it should have been renamed to dnf, even though it represents a significant amount of rewriting. yum is an incomparably better name. "dnf" is even worse than "apt".
      - toomanybeersies 10y ago
        DNF always makes me think of the fact that in racing, DNF stands for Did Not Finish.
      - subway 10y ago
        yum wasn't renamed dnf -- dnf is a new, yum (mostly) command line compatible replacement.
        SwellJoe 10y ago
        They share quite a bit of code.
username223 10y ago
Ah, Yellow Dog... I remember getting that running on a PowerBook way back in the Mac OS 9 days. What a pain, and X11 was always a bit glitchy.
Anthony-G 10y ago
While many web users don’t know that utm in a URL stands for Urchin Traffic Monitor, there are also Red Hat users who don’t realise that yum stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified
- SwellJoe 10y ago
  I not only remember it, it still makes me sick that they've replaced "yum", a project with a name that rolls smoothly off the tongue like no other, with "dnf", a project name that has all the grace of a running camel. (Also, it makes me sad that Seth's lovely project will be forgotten now that he's gone.)
SwellJoe 10y ago
I've made that mistake in our products. Hell, I'd nearly finished Gentoo support before realizing I was going down a stupid rabbit hole and the only prize was supporting the product for a half dozen grouchy users, and only one of them actually ever pays for software. We support three distros now (the obvious three), and politely encourage users of other distros who really don't want to use one of the big three to fork it and add support themselves (with our blessing and encouragement).

by fzn 10y ago

chamakits 10y ago

I remember Yellow Dog Linux ONLY because it was the official Linux Distribution supported by the PS3. Didn't use it enough to know how it distinguished itself from other distros beyond that, but thats enough of a distinction for me!

keepper 10y ago
They live on in a small tool they built... The Yellowdog Updater, Modified. Now just known as yum.
- Gevuloth 10y ago
  Now superceded by dnf on Fedora, sadly.
  - SwellJoe 10y ago
    Does anyone prefer the name dnf? I will likely never agree that it should have been renamed to dnf, even though it represents a significant amount of rewriting. yum is an incomparably better name. "dnf" is even worse than "apt".
    - toomanybeersies 10y ago
      DNF always makes me think of the fact that in racing, DNF stands for Did Not Finish.
    - subway 10y ago
      yum wasn't renamed dnf -- dnf is a new, yum (mostly) command line compatible replacement.
      - SwellJoe 10y ago
        They share quite a bit of code.

username223 10y ago

Ah, Yellow Dog... I remember getting that running on a PowerBook way back in the Mac OS 9 days. What a pain, and X11 was always a bit glitchy.

Anthony-G 10y ago

While many web users don’t know that utm in a URL stands for Urchin Traffic Monitor, there are also Red Hat users who don’t realise that yum stands for Yellowdog Updater, Modified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified

SwellJoe 10y ago
I not only remember it, it still makes me sick that they've replaced "yum", a project with a name that rolls smoothly off the tongue like no other, with "dnf", a project name that has all the grace of a running camel. (Also, it makes me sad that Seth's lovely project will be forgotten now that he's gone.)

SwellJoe 10y ago

I've made that mistake in our products. Hell, I'd nearly finished Gentoo support before realizing I was going down a stupid rabbit hole and the only prize was supporting the product for a half dozen grouchy users, and only one of them actually ever pays for software. We support three distros now (the obvious three), and politely encourage users of other distros who really don't want to use one of the big three to fork it and add support themselves (with our blessing and encouragement).