[yellowdog-announce] Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 is Complete: Press Release 2004 09/29

[yellowdog-announce at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]

TERRA SOFT RELEASES YELLOW DOG LINUX v4.0

Loveland, Colorado -- 29 September 2004 -- Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc., the 
leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions, is pleased to 
announce release of Yellow Dog Linux(TM) v4.0.

The final Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 CD-Rs have been created and will today be 
delivered to a CD production facility for glass mastering and replication. 
While shipping product will be available in approximately two weeks, Yellow 
Dog Linux v4.0 is immediately available through YDL.net Enhanced accounts.

Six months in development, Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 is built upon Fedora Core 2, 
offering both KDE 3.3 and GNOME 2.6.0 desktops with an all new presentation 
for both the Installer and post-installed desktop environment. Included apps 
are OpenOffice 1.1.1, Rhythmbox 0.8.3, Mozilla 1.7 and development tools 
glibc 2.3.3 and gcc 3.3.3 built upon the 32-bit kernel 2.6.8.

Terra Soft's lead engineer Owen Stampflee offers, "This development effort was 
perhaps the most challenging in the history of Terra Soft with a completely 
new code foundation, several mid-stream Apple product releases and revisions, 
and our own desire to achieve a product better than we have offered before 
driving us week after week. Our drive for excellence and the hard work of the
OSS community has resulted in the best hardware support in the history of YDL."

Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 offers 32-bit support for USB-G3s, G4s, G5 Power Macs, 
and through the Freescale Board Support Package, Genesi Pegasos II ATX 
boards. Expanded USB support includes many cameras, printers, adapters, and 
storage devices. FireWire support is now built-in with bootable FireWire made 
possible through manual configuration. Dual-head monitor support too now 
available for PowerBooks and G4/G5 Power Macs. Wireless connectivity is 
immediately available through the Netgear WG511 54Mb PCMCIA card with D-Link 
and Linksys USB card support in final stages of testing. Mac-On-Linux offers
the ability to run Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X and now offers automatic network
configuration.

 More information is available at:
 http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/

 To learn more about Yellow Dog Linux v4.0, visit:
 http://www.yellowdoglinux.com

 To download now, 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 
PowerPC Linux distributions.

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


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