Terra Soft Presents Yellow Dog Linux Roadmap

Loveland, Colorado -- 7 April 2004 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, completed the first Yellow Dog Linux developers summit, resulting in a two-year Yellow Dog Linux roadmap for PowerPC. With the next release of Yellow Dog Linux Terra Soft will offer 32-bit and 64-bit products built upon Red Hat's RPM-based Fedora.

'Yellow Dog Linux' -- Terra Soft's 32-bit offering will continue to be offered from Terra Soft pre-installed on Apple computers, from Terra Soft's on-line Store in Geek Edition and box set packaging, through retail stores world-wide, and for download from YDL.net Enhanced and the public FTP mirrors.

'Y-HPC' -- Terra Soft's new 64-bit offering will be available pre-installed on Apple, IBM, and Momentum 970-based hardware, from the Terra Soft Store, and for download from the forthcoming YDL.net Professional account.

Built on the 2.6 kernel and 32-bit libraries, Yellow Dog Linux will officially support Apple USB-G3s, G4s, and G5 towers. Built upon the 2.6 kernel, both 32- and 64-bit libraries, Y-HPC will provide full 64-bit support for 970 (G5) based systems, offering native double-precision floating point operations (FlOPS), 16GB (8GB tested to date) memory addressing, and the gcc 64-bit tool chain.

Yellow Dog Linux will be offered on 8 CDs, 4 application and 4 source, in order to maintain support for older systems. Y-HPC will be offered on 2 DVDs, one application, the other source.

Built upon Yellow Dog Linux v3.0.1, a beta version of Y-HPC is now available for download via YDL.net Enhanced accounts, offering double-precision, 8GB memory addressing, 64-bit tool chain, and the 2.6 kernel.

Both Yellow Dog Linux and Y-HPC are slated to ship with the close of May.


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading developer of integrated solutions for PowerPC, an Apple Authorized Proprietary Solutions Provider, and an Integrator-VAR for IBM and Momentum Computer. Yellow Dog Linux has boosted viability of Linux on PowerPC microprocessors with support for desktop, embedded, and HPC systems. Yellow Dog Linux was the first OS to function on the IBM Power 3 and 4 series systems and more recently enabled 64-bit memory addressing and double-precision calculations on the Apple G5 product line.

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