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[News] Terra Soft Releases Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 (now with OFFICIAL Pegasos support)ANN.lu
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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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Terra Soft Releases Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 (now with OFFICIAL Pegasos support) : Comment 41 of 48ANN.lu
Posted by Tronman on 03-Oct-2004 03:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Anders Kjeldsen):
Stop being such a dill-hole! Yeah, as developer 'X' I want the
'official support' of a company who has yet to produce anything
except for pushing three years of unpaid 'employees' and a veritable
trail of tears for the users who try and get behind them, but end up
bent over in front of them.

Amiga the company has NOTHING TO DO WTIH PRODUCING THE A-ONE!!! They
never did-it was all about the licensing $$$ that was the extent of
their involvement. They just wanted to badge their DE thingy with the
Name.

Seen the new Arm9 powered handheld that has 3D hardware accel,
128megs RAM, Yamaha surround sound stereo, and... No Amiga
Anywhere!!??

I guess 'Anywhere' means WinCE devices from three years ago..

Not being associated with Amiga is the BEST thing that ever happened
to the PegasosII.

Genesi got away from MAI based boards for a reason. It doesn't matter
to me or them if its the MAI chip itself, the southbridge, some
bizarre undocumented bad reaction between the two or what.. The point
is they went with a chipset that works and works well.

It seems to me like Genesi are consistently making choices which net
them new customers and greater exposure for the fledgeling PPC clone
market which they pioneer.

Amiga and clowns can't say that and I bet it pisses you off too. I
know it pisses me off, I might never get the money I'm owed either.

Just my two cents..
Jump...
#47 Tronman #48 Anders Kjeldsen
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