[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Hosts Yellow Dog Linux Summit; Presents Roadmap: Press Release 7 April 2004

[Media Relations]

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 double-precision, 16GB (8GB tested to date) memory 
addressing, and the gcc 64-bit tool chain.

At present time, 64-bit computing enables applications to address up to 16GB 
of RAM, enabling very large datasets to be held entirely in memory. 64-bit 
also enables 'double-precision', referring to the number of decimal places 
processed natively by the CPU. 64-bit code is typically associated with high 
performance computing while 32-bit code is associated with home, office, 
internet and application servers.

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.

For more information, visit http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com