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I N T H E N E W S
Yellow Dog Linux Supports 400 MHz G4s
Loveland, CO, 14 September 1999
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., developer of Yellow Dog Linux for Apple and IBM PowerPC based computers, today announced support for the newly introduced, Apple Power Macintosh G4. Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server 1.1 works out-of-box on the new Apple Power Macintosh G4 400 MHz system.
"The Champion Server 1.1 that we have shipped since MacWorld will indeed work, out-of-the-box, on the recently released 400 megahertz G4s. As it is our goal to support new Apple hardware as quickly as we are able, we will [happily] put in over-time when the advanced logic board--the basis of the 450MHz G4, 500MHz G4, and iBooks--becomes available," states Dan Burcaw, CTO, Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
The supported G4s offer a 400MHz G4 processor, 1MB/50MHz backside leve-2 cache, 100MHz bus supporting up to 400-megabytes-per-second data throughput, and built-in 10/100 Mb ethernet. These machines sport a 10, 20, or 27GB Ultra ATA drive, three 3.5-inch hard disk drive expansion bays, the ATI RAGE 128 graphics card with 16MB of SDRAM graphics memory installed in a dedicated graphics slot. And work is underway to optimize Linux for the Velocity Engine vector processing unit, a revolution in processor technology.
More information about the Apple G4 is available online at www.apple.com
About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Based in Loveland, CO, TSS is the developer of Yellow Dog Linux for Apple Power Macintosh and IBM RS/6000 systems. Champion Server, their flagship product, is a highly professional distribution geared toward a wide range of network applications such as ISPs, corporate intra/extranets, web and network servers. Terra Soft has also introduced Black Lab Linux, a stand-alone workstation and parallel-computing system for research and development facilities.
TSS is also currently developing Gone Home which is the much anticipated version of Yellow Dog Linux designed specifically for the home user. It will be offered as a stand-alone product, bundled with games and/or home-office applications, and will introduce an entirely new graphical installer (yes, you can use your mouse and yes, it will be open source).
For more information visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl and www.blacklablinux.com
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COPYRIGHT ® 1999-2008. TERRA SOFT SOLUTIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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