Yellow Dog Linux

[Laguna's Girl]

I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with YDL? I am thinking of trying it out but was wondering if anyone has any views on it.

Also, I am running XP Home Edition so I would like to try a Dual Boot as opposed to completely uninstalling XP, how would I go about doing this? I have an 80GB HDD which is already partitioned. One of the partitions is 52.6GB and the other one is 17.2GB. The second partition was made before I got the laptop, Dell put it there for a restore option I think, or something like that anyway.

Also, would all of my hardware be compatible with it? I have an Inspiron 6400 with a 2.0Ghz Centrino Duo, an ATI Mobility X1300 128mb graphics card and I have an Intel Internal Wireless adaptor.

Also, is it just for Macs? Or can it be installed on any PC?

[Mini-Me]

From what I can find, it is an Apple Power PC architechure distro only - not for PC's is my understanding...(however, I could be wrong - I only had a quick look on the net for YDL)

Wiki has a little bit of info on it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_Linux

[KenJackson]

You picked about the only distro that can't be run on an Intel processor. Threre are over a hundred to choose from including 10 or so very popular good ones. Take a look through DistroWatch (http://distrowatch.com/) to find one that suits your style. Personally, I like Mandriva.

[PrntRhd]

Also, I am running XP Home Edition so I would like to try a Dual Boot as opposed to completely uninstalling XP, how would I go about doing this? I have an 80GB HDD which is already partitioned. One of the partitions is 52.6GB and the other one is 17.2GB. The second partition was made before I got the laptop, Dell put it there for a restore option I think, or something like that anyway.
Well, you usually don't want to delete that Restore partition unless you burned restore disks onto known good media or Imaged the PC, otherwise you risk not being to reinstall the drivers and XP Home when something goes wrong.
You would make a new Linux partition if you have enough (10 Gigs for Linux and enough for XP too) free space on the HDD, and Grub boot loader allows the selection of the OS.