[yellowdog-announce] IBM App Devel Contest Awards 100 G5 Power Macs: Press Release 2004 10/06

[yellowdog-announce at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]

IBM SPONSORS APPLICATION DEVELOPER CONTEST TO BRING 
NEW APPLICATIONS TO POWERPC LINUX

Loveland, Colorado -- 6 October 2004 -- Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc., the 
leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions is pleased to promote 
IBM's "Linux on POWER Open Source Developer Contest", designed to move open 
source applications to Linux running on the PowerPC architecture.

IBM's desire is to further expand the foundation of PowerPC Linux 
applications. As more developers are becoming familiar with working on 64-bit 
PowerPC Linux, the foundation of supported applications has grown 
tremendously which in turn offers a more diverse environment from which to 
learn, work, and play.

"I am very pleased with the dedication IBM has demonstrated toward PowerPC 
Linux, " states Kai Staats, CEO Terra Soft Solutions, "We are honored to be a 
part of this contest ... eager to deliver 100 G5s with Y-HPC pre-installed to 
the [Tier 2] winners."

Winners of this contest will receive prizes as follows:
 The Tier 1 winner will receive a Toyota Prius.

 100 Tier 2 winners will receive a free Apple dual G5 Power Mac
 through Terra Soft with Y-HPC pre-installed.

 100 Tier 3 winners will receive cash prices.

Registration for the contest must be completed by October 31st, 2004. See 
http://www.linuxonpower.com/ for registration, contest rules, and 
regulations. Ported applications must be submitted on or before December 
10th. The winners will receive notification on or about December 24th, 2004.

For developers who do not currently have access to a POWER or PowerPC 
development box, free ppc64 shells are available at 
www.egr.up.edu/powerlinux.

Terra Soft will direct contest updates and announcement of winners to the 
Yellow Dog Developers mailing list: 
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-devel

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 
PowerPC Linux distributions.

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


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