“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…”