[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Launches Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 RC1: Press Release 4 August 2004

TERRA SOFT LAUNCHES YELLOW DOG LINUX v4.0 RC1

Loveland, Colorado -- 4 August 2004 -- Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc., the 
leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, is pleased to 
announce delivery of Yellow Dog Linux(TM) v4.0 RC1 through YDL.net Enhanced 
accounts.

Owen Stampflee, lead Yellow Dog developer states, "Finally." The rest of the 
Terra Soft staff echoes his sentiment.

The "RC1" status denotes v4.0 as not quite ready for glass-master or use on 
mission critical systems. However, few issues remain and their level of 
importance is minor. YDL.net Enhanced account holders may refer to the 
provided README for more information.

Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 offers an incredible graphical interface with both KDE 
3.2.2 and GNOME 2.6.0 desktops. Terra Soft's graphic designer Jake Fedie has 
prepared an all new presentation for both the Installer and post-install 
desktop environment. Included apps are OpenOffice 1.1.1, Rhythmbox 0.8.3, 
Mozilla 1.6 and development tools glibc 2.3.3 and gcc 3.3.3 built upon the 
32-bit kernel 2.6.7.

Tested hardware includes G3 iBooks, Blue & Whites, and iMacs; G4 PowerBooks 
and Power Macs; and G5 Power Macs. The Terra Soft beta-test community is hard 
at work with RC1 to verify a full matrix of Apple systems. Preliminary 
support for the Netgear WG511 54Mb PCMCIA wi-fi card is made possible via 
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/

To download the 4 Install and 4 Source ISOs, visit http://www.ydl.net/ 


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading Integrated Solutions Provider with proven expertise in 
the PowerPC architecture and Linux OS platform. As an Apple Authorized 
Proprietary Solutions Provider and IBM Business Partner, Terra Soft provides 
turnkey and build-to-order portables, desktop workstations, application and 
network servers, and HPC clusters. Terra Soft offers both 32-bit and 64-bit 
distributions to the Linux on POWER developer community.

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


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