PR: Terra Soft Ships Yellow Dog Linux 2.3

Loveland, Colorado -- 27 June 2002 -- Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. officially announces the shipping of Yellow Dog Linux 2.3, the latest update to the company's flagship product.

Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 offers the new KDE 3 desktop which provides a number of high-tech features such as GUI 'translucency'--another leap in the Linux user experience.

YDL 2.3 defaults to the CUPS print system: a simple, web-based configuration tool for high-quality support for a wide-range of printers.

In addition, YDL includes 'apt-get' to replace 'yup!' as a simple, proven, automated update utility that enables the user to keep their installed system current. apt-get provides intelligent, automatic dependency handling to help reduce the hassles involved in package management.

YDL 2.3 offers the following updates:

• kernel 2.4.19
• KDE 3.0.1
• OpenOffice 1.0
• CUPS print system
• apt-get for RPM
• Mozilla 0.9.9
• Galeon 1.2
• Evolution 1.0.5
• AbiWord 1.0.2
• Netatalk 1.5.3.1
• xmms-cdread plugin

YDL 2.3 is available now from Terra Soft's redesigned online store: http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/

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