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Terra Soft Ships YDL 2.3
Loveland, Colorado — 27 June 2002 — Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions ships Yellow Dog Linux 2.3, the latest update to the company’s flagship product.
Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 offers the new
KDE 3 desktop, which provides a number of high-tech features such as GUI ‘translucency’ –another leap in the Linux user experience.
YDL 2.3 defaults to the CUPS print system: a simple, web-based configuration tool for high-quality support for a wide-range of printers.
In addition, YDL includes ‘apt-get’ to replace ‘yup!’ as a simple, proven, automated update utility that enables the user to keep their installed system current. apt-get provides intelligent, automatic dependency handling to help reduce the hassles involved in package management.
YDL 2.3 offers the following updates:
Kernel 2.4.19 KDE 3.0.1 OpenOffice 1.0 CUPS print system apt-get for RPM
AbiWord 1.0.2 Netatalk 1.5.3.1 xmms-cdread plugin
YDL 2.3 is available now from Terra Soft’s redesigned online Store.
About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. is a leading developer of innovative technologies and provider of integrated HPC solutions for PowerPC. Yellow Dog Linux, the flagship product, has boosted viability of Linux on PowerPC microprocessors. Black Lab provides an HPC node creation and management suite, designed to work with a number of PowerPC platforms, including Apple Macintosh, GVS 9000, and the Yellow briQ Node, a high-density PowerPC Linux computer.
For more information, visit
www.terrasoftsolutions.com
