Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yellow Dog Linux

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Michaelzeng7 (talk) 11:36, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yellow Dog Linux

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Non-notable Linux distro, tagged for sources since 2008. Of the twelve references in the article, one is the O/S homepage itself, and ten are about a PlayStation3 computing cluster made with said O/S. Why the OS itself is notable is not cited, and I have been unable to locate anything that says its Mac support is unique, eve on distro sites. MSJapan (talk) 11:15, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:53, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this article, because historical reasons WP:NTEMP. Yellow Dog are one of the oldest distros (1999), is a survivor of extinct distros in the late 90's (Corel Linux, RedHat Linux, SCO Linux, etc). References can be improved. According to WP:NNC, "Notability is a property of a subject and not of a Wikipedia article". You can not justify that is notable (or not) only for its twenty references. WP:NRVE also says: "an article's subject can be notable if such sources exist, even if they have not been named yet." Regards --GM83 (talk) 19:28, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ps: Obviously the references will point to issues such as PS3, because this distribution is built to PowerPC and PS3 architectures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GM83 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep for historical reasons and its unique stature in the market. YDL is one of the few (the only?) Linux dists that's targeted solely on PowerPC hardware, and was/is the only one that supports several PowerPC/Power Architecture devices like the PS3. -- Henriok (talk) 18:15, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep historical notability - Wikipedia has too much recentism as it is. W Nowicki (talk) 20:44, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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