Since 1999 Terra Soft has maintained a dedication to the PowerPC architecture, bringing to Power Linux users world-wide a number of innovations and industry firsts:
2008
- Terra Soft helps Student Project Africa Network raise more than $3000 USD in less than five days to help feed and clothe the children of the Pistis orphanage caught in the deadly cross-fire in Nakuru, Kenya.
- First Linux OS to ship with IBM Cell SDK pre-installed.
2007
- Terra Soft launches the HPC Consortium.
- Terra Soft hosts the first ever Cell Hack-a-thon.
- Terra Soft launches first commerical Linux OS to support a decade of Apple PowerPC, IBM System p, and IBM, Mercury and Sony Cell products from a single install DVD.
- Terra Soft helps integrate a Sony PS3 into the realtime image processing system onboard a Jeep Grand Cherokee for the DARPA autonomous vehicle challenge.
2006
- First commercial Linux OS to support FireWire booting.
- Penguin OEMs Y-Bio; Scalable Informatics resells Y-Bio.
- First Linux OS to support Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3).
- First commercial Linux OS to integrate Enlightenment E17 as the default desktop.
- First commercial cluster construction suite for Cell; both x86 and Power.
2005
- Terra Soft launches Y-Bio, first PowerPC Linux bioinformatics application suite.
- Terra Soft assists Colsa to #15 in Top500.org.
- First commercial Linux OS for Cell via the Mercury BSP.
2004
- Boeing chooses YDL as OS foundation for Boeing B1 flight simulators.
- Y-HPC introduced at SC2004 with 64-bit support, beating OSX to the G5s.
- YDL gains IBM XL support.
2003
- Terra Soft contracted to create Momentum and Motorola BSPs.
- TSS captures largest Xserve sale to date -- Lockheed Martin/Navy submarine imaging system.
- Duke University builds 'yum' (Yellowdog Updater Modified) from Terra Soft's original yup, quickly becoming the industry standard for RPM management.
2002
- Terra Soft signs as Apple VAR with unique license to pre-install non-OSX OS.
- First commercial Linux OS to support Apple Xserves.
- Installs largest Xserve cluster to date -- University Colorado, Boulder.
2001
- First commercial Linux OS for Total Impact briQ; TSS resells briQs.
- Through the development of a new GUI installer for YDL, Terra Soft develops 'yup', Yellowdog UPdate for automated RPM management (later to become the industry standard "yum", see 2003)
2000
- Apple Federal invites Terra Soft on 9-week educational roadtour.
- First Linux OS to provide AltiVec compiler support.
- First commercial Linux OS and cluster suite for CSPI FastCluster.
- First Linux OS to provide support for IBM Power4 (through LinuxCare).
1999
- Terra Soft is founded (January) and Yellow Dog Linux is born (March).
- First to provide ATA support on G3s.
- First to offer PowerPC Linux suite for parallel computing ("Black Lab").
- First Linux OS for IBM RS/6000 B50 "Pizzazz".
- First commercial Linux OS for Apple G4.
