[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Ships G4 ATX Workstation: Press Release 2005 07/06

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Wed Jul 6 01:49:39 MDT 2005


TERRA SOFT SHIPS G4 ATX WORKSTATION

Loveland, Colorado -- 6 July 2005 -- Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc., the 
leading developer of integrated Power Architecture Linux solutions, today 
announces a VAR relationship with Genesi for provision of the Open Desktop 
Workstation with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed.

Kai Staats, co-founder & CEO of Terra Soft Solutions states, "This is an 
exciting engagement for Terra Soft, perfectly timed given recent shifts in 
the market place. What's more, the Open Desktop Workstation is small in size, 
inexpensive, and can be used with existing monitors, keyboards, mice, even 
external storage devices. Designed by Genesi to offer tight Linux 
integration, we are thrilled to ship a system that just works."

A well rounded, expertly designed product, the Open Desktop Workstation 
introduces a choice in PowerPC Linux workstations. The fully configured ODW 
with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed offers a complete home/office 
workstation, code development platform for embedded, server, and end-user 
applications, as well as the traditional Linux offering of a full featured 
email, web, ftp, and database server.

Bill Buck, president of Genesi states, "We are pleased to have Terra Soft 
on-board as an official Value Added Reseller for the Open Desktop 
Workstation. Their Yellow Dog Linux operating system lends a level of 
recognized integrity, enabling the ODW to move into the hands of end-users in 
a more diverse market place."

The Open Desktop Workstation is based upon the Pegasos II motherboard 
featuring the Marvell Discovery II Northbridge and a high-performance 
PowerPC(R) processor from Freescale Semiconductor of the same G4 family that 
ships in several Apple systems. This PowerPC processor boasts a 128-bit wide 
AltiVec(TM) vector processing engine that can more than double processing 
performance for many applications while maintaining low power consumption and 
heat dissipation.

"When we worked with Terra Soft last fall to produce a Yellow Dog Linux Board 
Support Package, it set in motion what is launched today, a flexible, 
powerful workstation with support by an industry-leading Linux distribution," 
said Chuck Corley, Applications Engineering Manager at Freescale 
Semiconductor. "The Open Desktop Workstation from Genesi represents an 
established platform for Linux application development, as well as a proving 
ground for a variety of end-user solutions on the PowerPC architecture, such 
as home media centers, web servers, and self-serve kiosks. Freescale is 
pleased to see this platform available to our customers."

The base ODW configuration is as follows:
      - Low Profile Small Footprint Case - Tower or Desktop Orientation.
      - Pegasos II with 1GHz G4 processor.
      - 512MB DDR RAM.
      - 80GB ATA100 Hard Disk.
      - Dual-Layer DVD±RW Drive.
      - ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card.

... built upon the Pegasos II motherboard:
      - Micro ATX form factor (236mm x 172mm).
      - OpenFirmware (IEEE1275) boot interface.
      - Marvell Discovery II (MV64361) System Controller.
      - G4 PowerPC CPU.
      - 184-pin 266MHz DDR RAM sockets.
      - 1x AGP slot.
      - 3x PCI slots with riser connector.
      - 2x ATA100 IDE Channels.
      - 3x IEEE1394 ports (400Mbit).
      - 3x USB 1.1 ports (12Mbit).
      - Gigabit and 10/100 Ethernet.
      - AC97 Audio Subsystem.
      - IrDA, Serial, Parallel, and PS/2.
      - Floppy drive connector.

The Open Desktop Workstation grants PowerPC what has been common place in the 
Lintel market for years: an inexpensive Linux platform built upon industry 
standards that meets the price-point and needs of a diverse set of end users.

Available now with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed exclusively from Terra Soft 
Solutions: http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading Integrated Solutions Provider with proven expertise in 
the Power architecture and Linux OS platform. As an Apple, Mercury, and 
Genesi VAR and IBM Business Partner, Terra Soft provides turnkey and 
build-to-order portables, desktop workstations, HA servers, and HPC clusters. 
Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux OS and Y-HPC 64-bit cluster construction suite 
are widely accepted as a preferred platforms for systems world-wide.

For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com


About Genesi.
Genesi is a leading provider of PowerPC™ based computing products. Genesi's 
OpenFirmware (IEEE1275) compliant PegasosPPC family is designed to bring 
PowerPC technology, flexibility, and efficiency to the desktop, home 
entertainment, netcom, low-end server and pervasive market segments at an 
affordable price.

For more information, visit genesi.pegasosppc.com

Pegasos is a registered trademark of Genesi. All other trademarks or 
registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.


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