Terra Soft Ships YDL 2.2

Posted by: Bill Martens Date: May 17, 2002 0 Likes 361 Views

Extend the life of your PowerPC machine with Linux

Loveland, Colorado — 26 March 2002 — Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions announces shipment of Yellow Dog Linux 2.2, the most mature and complete PowerPC Linux distribution available.

Yellow Dog Linux 2.2 offers an array of improvements over v2.1 with the most advanced, stable release of the 2.4 kernel, improved support for the Apple ADC monitors, and accelerated video. The screen brightness and volume control buttons are now supported on NewWorld ROM Apple PowerBooks and iBook computers. And while the latest release of KDE is an appreciated improvement, Gnome has taken a stunning leap forward –giving Mac OS X a run for its money– exceptional by all standards.

A few of the features are:

• Red Hat 7.2 based system
• ‘ext3’ graphical migration program
• XFree86 4.2.0, KDE 2.2.2, and Gnome 1.4 w/Nautilus & Evolution
• Improved modem & printer support
• Improved support for nVidia GeForce2 MX & ATI Radeon–including ADC digital

With movement into high performance computing supported by the release of Black Lab 2.0, YDL now offers ‘HPC Node’ as a package selection, in addition to ‘Base’, ‘Home/Office’, ‘Developer Workstation’, ‘Server’, and ‘Everything’ options.

“The means by which this latest YDL release came together clearly demonstrates the cohesion and professional relationships that have grown within the open source community. While our in-house experience plays a significant role in the maturation of YDL, the unified effort of the community continues to make YDL possible. Many thanks to everyone who worked with us,” states Dan Burcaw, Terra Soft Solutions CTO.

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

Terra Soft Solutions Inc.
119 West Second Street
Loveland, CO 80537
Tel: 970.278.9243
Fax: 707.988.7982

Author: Bill Martens
A.P.P.L.E. Chairman of the Board and Club president -- Bill worked for the founder, Val J. Golding and A.P.P.L.E. from 1981 to 1982. In 1999, he began archiving the materials which were distributed and sold by A.P.P.L.E.. That project led to the group that remained of A.P.P.L.E. Bill was involved in the financial industry in Tokyo and has over 20 major office infrastructure projects to his name. In March 2001, he retired to write books and to spend more time pursuing personal interests. As the president of the users group, Bill is in charge of distribution of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine as well as the organization of this web site. Bill currently resides in Tokyo, Japan and Shelton, Wa splitting time between the places.
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