[News] Terra Soft Releases Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 (now with OFFICIAL Pegasos support) | ANN.lu |
Posted on 30-Sep-2004 17:55 GMT by Yellow Dog | 48 comments View flat View list |
The Linux support for Pegasos is increasing even more!
Loveland, Colorado -- 29 September 2004 -- Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, is pleased to announce release of Yellow Dog Linux(TM) v4.0.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2004/2004-09-29.shtml
The final Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 CD-Rs have been created and will today be delivered to a CD production facility for glass mastering and replication. While shipping product will be available in approximately two weeks, Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 is immediately available through YDL.net Enhanced accounts.
Six months in development, Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 is built upon Fedora Core 2, offering both KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.6.0 desktops with an all new presentation for both the Installer and post-installed desktop environment. Included apps are OpenOffice 1.1.1, Rhythmbox 0.8.3, Mozilla 1.7 and development tools glibc 2.3.3 and gcc 3.3.3 built upon the 32-bit kernel 2.6.8.
Terra Soft's lead engineer Owen Stampflee offers, "This development effort was perhaps the most challenging in the history of Terra Soft with a completely new code foundation, several mid-stream Apple product releases and revisions, and our own desire to achieve a product better than we have offered before driving us week after week. Our drive for excellence and the hard work of the OSS community has resulted in the best hardware support in the history of YDL."
Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 offers 32-bit support for USB-G3s, G4s, G5 Power Macs, and through the Freescale Board Support Package, Genesi Pegasos II ATX boards. Expanded USB support includes many cameras, printers, adapters, and storage devices. FireWire support is now built-in with bootable FireWire made possible through manual configuration. Dual-head monitor support too now available for PowerBooks and G4/G5 Power Macs. Wireless connectivity is immediately available through the Netgear WG511 54Mb PCMCIA card with D-Link and Linksys USB card support in final stages of testing. Mac-On-Linux offers the ability to run Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X and now offers automatic network configuration.
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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 01-Oct-2004 11:03 GMT | In reply to Comment 19 (Ron): > Sammy has got a point though, hasn't he...
If so, I completely fail to see it! ;-)
> The reason for discussing the Pegasos on THIS forum is the hope that it will
> some day be able to run an Amiga OS.
I would dare to claim that *the name* of the OS is of less importance to the Pegasos owners of today in this community, nor whether it's official or not. If the unofficial solution is performing better, is actually working, is cheaper, is actually available for purchase *now* if you want to, is more Amiga compatible, has better developer support among todays developers, then who wants to be "official"?
The future is not something static, things are always a subject to change. In the long run, *the best* solution, the most *widely spread* solution, and the solution with the *best support* among developers and users will *set the standard*, thus becoming the future "official" solution (in quotation marks meaning the solution that almost everyone will use), which *not necessarily* will be the branded one!
> It still has no support from Amiga
Really, who cares?
> but now has the support of a Linux distribution.
Several, actually ...
> Good news for people -like me- considering dropping the AMIGA idea and moving
> over to Linux.
If you consider dropping the Amiga, you will probably still feel right at home with MorphOS. Personally, I'm not *that* interested in Linux myself, but one of my Pegasos computers (a Peg2 G3) is used as a server (totally silent!), and for that purpose the Linux is very good (Gentoo rulez! ;-)).
But MorphOS is what interests me the most ... |
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