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by chamakits 3499 days 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!

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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Now superceded by dnf on Fedora, sadly.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.