Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce delivery of
Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 RC1 through YDL.net Enhanced accounts.
Owen Stampflee, lead Yellow Dog developer states, “Finally.” The
rest of the Terra Soft staff echoes his sentiment.
The “RC1” status denotes v4.0 as not quite ready for glass-master
or use on mission critical systems. However, few issues remain and
their level of importance is minor. YDL.net Enhanced users may
refer to the provided README for more information.
Yellow Dog Linux v4.0 offers an incredible graphical interface with
both KDE 3.2.2 and GNOME 2.6.0 desktops. Terra Soft’s graphic
designer Jake Fedie has prepared an all new presentation for both
the Installer and post-install desktop environment. Included with
v4.0 are OpenOffice 1.1.1, Rhythmbox 0.8.3, Mozilla 1.6 and
development tools glibc 2.3.3 and gcc 3.3.3 built upon the 32-bit
kernel 2.6.7.
Tested hardware includes G3 iBooks, Blue & Whites, and iMacs,
G4 PowerBooks and Power Macs, and G5 Power Macs. The Terra Soft
beta-test community is hard at work with RC1 to verify a full
matrix of Apple systems. Preliminary support for the Netgear WG511
54Mb PCMCIA wi-fi card is made possible via www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/.
To download the 4 Install and 4 Source ISOs, visit www.ydl.net