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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 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.u...

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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

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.)

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!

They live on in a small tool they built... The Yellowdog Updater, Modified.

Now just known as yum.

Now superceded by dnf on Fedora, sadly.

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".

DNF always makes me think of the fact that in racing, DNF stands for Did Not Finish.

yum wasn't renamed dnf -- dnf is a new, yum (mostly) command line compatible replacement.

They share quite a bit of code.

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).

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.

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