Terra Soft Releases Yellow Dog Linux v6.0 | Linux Today

Terra Soft Releases Yellow Dog Linux v6.0

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 5, 2008

“Terra Soft today released Yellow Dog Linux v6.0 for Sony PS3,
Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p. Built upon the CentOS foundation, a
popular derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), YDL v6.0
offers enterprise quality for the home user.

“‘This particular release marks an important point in our
history, leading into our tenth year of Linux OS development and
distribution for the Power architecture. To put things in
perspective, in the spring of 1999 all installers were text-based,
cell phone modems functioned only in the movies, and the fastest
desktops ran at 300MHz … it would be another year before we
shipped with AltiVec support. Now, the Cell CPU offers 3.2GHz
across 9 cores and our cell phones nearly equal the performance of
a desktop of 1999,’ states Kai Staats, Terra Soft CEO…”

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Web Webster

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.

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