[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Ships YDL 2.3 --Press Release: 2002 06/27
Kai Staats
kstaats@terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jun 26 17:50:01 2002
TERRA SOFT SHIPS YELLOW DOG LINUX 2.3
Loveland, Colorado -- 27 June 2002 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading
developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions ships Yellow Dog Linux 2.3,
the latest update to the company's flagship product.
Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 offers the new KDE 3 desktop which provides a number of
high-tech features such as GUI 'translucency' --another leap in the Linux
user experience.
YDL 2.3 defaults to the CUPS print system: a simple, web-based configuration
tool for high-quality support for a wide-range of printers.
In addition, YDL includes 'apt-get' to replace 'yup!' as a simple, proven,
automated update utility that enables the user to keep their installed system
current. apt-get provides intelligent, automatic dependency handling to help
reduce the hassles involved in package management.
YDL 2.3 offers the following updates:
kernel 2.4.19
KDE 3.0.1
OpenOffice 1.0
CUPS print system
apt-get for RPM
Mozilla 0.9.9
Galeon 1.2
Evolution 1.0.5
AbiWord 1.0.2
Netatalk 1.5.3.1
xmms-cdread plugin
YDL 2.3 is available now from Terra Soft's redesigned online store:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/
About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. is a leading developer of integrated solutions for
PowerPC. Yellow Dog Linux, the flagship product, has boosted viability of
Linux on PowerPC microprocessors. Black Lab provides an HPC node creation and
management suite.
For more information, visit http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/