[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux Ships with Motorola's Sandpoint: Press Release 2003 10/21

[Media Relations]

TERRA SOFT SOLUTIONS' YELLOW DOG LINUX SHIPS WITH MOTOROLA'S SANDPOINT 
EVALUATION BOARD FOR POWERPC(r) PROCESSOR PLATFORMS

Loveland, Colorado -- 21 October 2003 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the 
leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, today announced that 
its Yellow Dog Linux is shipping with Motorola's Sandpoint evaluation board 
as part of an enhanced system package for Motorola PowerPC(r) processor-based 
systems.

"We have enjoyed a relationship with the Terra Soft team for a few years, 
watching Yellow Dog Linux gain a diverse, professional user base," said Chuck 
Corley, director of applications engineering for Motorola's Computing 
Platforms Division. "At this juncture, the inclusion of Yellow Dog Linux with 
Sandpoint demonstrates Yellow Dog's integrity, our customers' desire to use 
Linux as a development operating system, and the appropriateness of Yellow 
Dog Linux as an OS for Motorola's PowerPC processor-based prototype 
development systems."

The Sandpoint evaluation system demonstrates the capabilities of Motorola 
PowerPC processors. It is an ideal platform for software development and 
debug, as well as for hardware development. Enhanced Sandpoint evaluation 
systems for PowerPC processor-based Linux development are also available, 
with the Yellow Dog Linux box set from Terra Soft Solutions included.

"We could not be more pleased and proud that Motorola has embraced Yellow Dog 
Linux in this fashion. The combination of the proven Sandpoint evaluation 
board with Yellow Dog Linux offers Motorola's customers a comprehensive OS on 
which to develop and enable seamless host to target code migration. We are 
confident that many powerful, unique OEM designs will come from this combined 
offering," stated Kai Staats, co-founder and CEO Terra Soft Solutions.

The Sandpoint evaluation system provides an example that can be used in 
designing other systems based on implementations of the PowerPC instruction 
set architecture, and a platform for developing and debugging Linux and other 
software for these processors and associated bridge chips.

The motherboard inside the Sandpoint evaluation system is an ATX form factor 
with PCI Mezzanine (PMC) connectors that accept a processor module. Each PMC 
includes at least 64MByte of SDRAM. 'DINK32' debug monitor software is also 
provided with the system.

The Valis X3 MPC7457 PMC Module (Part No. PPCDEV-SP3-7457) is a PCI Mezzanine 
Card (PMC) with the MPC7457 host processor option for the Sandpoint X3 
motherboard. This version of the Sandpoint motherboard is preconfigured with 
Yellow Dog Linux on an included IDE hard disk. Similarly, Unity X4 MPC8245 
PMC Module (PPCDEV-SP3-8245) is a pre-configured Linux Sandpoint X3 
Motherboard with the MPC8245 processor.

For more information about Motorola's PowerPC processors, Sandpoint system, 
and Yellow Dog Linux installation, visit:
http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=SANDPOINTX3&nodeId=016246
http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC7457&nodeId=016246
http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8245&nodeId=016246
http://e-www.motorola.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2578.pdf


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 Linux on 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 http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com

The "PowerPC" name is the trademark of IBM Corp. and used under license from 
IBM Corp. (c) Motorola, Inc. 2003.