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/
Web Webster
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.