[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Offers Apple G5s Prepared for Yellow Dog Linux: 2003 06/24

[Media Relations]

TERRA SOFT OFFERS APPLE G5s PREPARED FOR YELLOW DOG LINUX

Loveland, Colorado -- 24 June 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., leading 
developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions is today accepting pre-orders 
for Apple G5 Power Macs --soon to be supported by Yellow Dog Linux.

Yesterday Apple unveiled the extraordinary new G5s. Built upon IBM's 970 CPU, 
the G5 is the union of a single-core of the IBM Power4 64-bit processor and 
the Motorola and IBM's 32-bit AltiVec unit, offering unsurpassed performance 
in a desktop computer. As Yellow Dog Linux was in 2000 enabled for the IBM 
Power3 by IBM Lab and Linuxcare, and subsequently for the Power4, the effort 
to support the 970-based Apple computers is anticipated to be completed with 
relative ease.

As an Apple Authorized Reseller, Terra Soft is now receiving pre-orders for 
Apple G5s. When the units are made available, Terra Soft will prepare the 
drive with a partition for Yellow Dog Linux and install Mac OS X. With the 
G5, Terra Soft's customer will receive the current Yellow Dog Linux CDs, 
280-page "Getting Started" book, sticker, and T-shirt. The updated Install 
CDs will be shipped at no additional charge when the G5s are supported. In 
addition, those who pre-order now will receive free installation support.

To pre-order an Apple G5, visit Terra Soft's on-line Store:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/

Terra Soft anticipates Yellow Dog Linux support for G5 by the close of August.


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading developer of integrated solutions for PowerPC and an 
Apple Authorized Proprietary Solutions Provider. Yellow Dog Linux has boosted 
viability of PowerPC microprocessors with support for desktop, embedded, and 
HPC systems. Black Lab is an advanced, scalable, HPC cluster build and 
management suite.

For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com