Subject: [yellowdog-announce] Yellow Dog Support for 400 MHz G4s: Press Release 14 September 1999
From: Kai Staats (kstaats@terraplex.com)
Date: Tue Sep 14 1999 - 09:34:56 MDT
Loveland, CO, 14 September 1999
Yellow Dog Linux Supports 400 MHz G4s
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., developer of Yellow Dog Linux for Apple and IBM
PowerPC based computers, today announced support for the newly introduced,
Apple Power Macintosh G4. Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server 1.1 works
out-of-box on the new Apple Power Macintosh G4 400 MHz system.
"The Champion Server 1.1 that we have shipped since MacWorld will indeed
work, out-of-the-box, on the recently released 400 megahertz G4s. As it is
our goal to support new Apple hardware as quickly as we are able, we will
[happily] put in over-time when the advanced logic board--the basis of the
450MHz G4, 500MHz G4, and iBooks--becomes available," states Dan Burcaw,
CTO, Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
The supported G4s offer a 400MHz G4 processor, 1MB/50MHz backside leve-2
cache, 100MHz bus supporting up to 800-megabytes-per-second data
throughput, and built-in 10/100 Mb ethernet. These machines sport a 10, 20,
or 27GB Ultra ATA drive, three 3.5-inch hard disk drive expansion bays, the
ATI RAGE 128 graphics card with 16MB of SDRAM graphics memory installed in
a dedicated graphics slot. And work is underway to optimize Linux for the
Velocity Engine vector processing unit, a revolution in processor
technology.
More information about the Apple G4 is available online at
http://www.apple.com/
About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Based in Loveland, CO, TSS is the developer of Yellow Dog Linux for Apple
Power Macintosh and IBM RS/6000 systems. Champion Server, their flagship
product, is a highly professional distribution geared toward a wide range
of network applications such as ISPs, corporate intra/extranets, web and
network servers. Terra Soft has also introduced Black Lab Linux, a
stand-alone workstation and parallel-computing system for research and
development facilities.
TSS is also currently developing Gone Home which is the much anticipated
version of Yellow Dog Linux designed specifically for the home user. It
will be offered as a stand-alone product, bundled with games and/or
home-office applications, and will introduce an entirely new graphical
installer (yes, you can use your mouse and yes, it will be open source).
For more information visit http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ and
http://www.blacklablinux.com/
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