Yellow Dog Linux 6.1

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Yellow Dog Linux 6.1

Postby billb » 20 Nov 2008, 02:21

Just in case anyone missed this ... :D

http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pip ... 00194.html

YELLOW DOG LINUX v6.1 OFFERS ADVANCED CELL EXPERIENCE

AUSTIN, Texas - 19 November 2008 - From the show floor of SuperComputing 2008,
booth #1915, Fixstars today released Yellow Dog Linux v6.1 for Apple G4/G5,
Sony PLAYSTATION3, PowerStation, and IBM Power Systems. Built upon the CentOS
foundation, a derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, YDL v6.1 offers several
end-user and development tool improvements over the previous v6.0.

"This marks the final release of Yellow Dog Linux by Terra Soft and the first
by Fixstars," states Owen Stampflee, Fixstars Solutions' Director of
Engineering, "In the past five years we have made incremental improvements
with each release, always pressing for a higher quality end user experience.
In some updates, we focus on the desktop; in others the development
environment. With version 6.1 we have accomplished a unique blend of both. I
am personally proud of what we offer with this version of Yellow Dog, and
believe our users will enjoy it as well."

Satoshi Miki, Fixstars Chief Executive Officer states, "We are proud to not
only acquire and tightly integrate YDL into our product and service
offerings, but to be a part of this particular release which intentionally
addresses the needs of the Cell developer. Having been a YDL user for more
than two years, to launch our first Fixstars' branded YDL distribution is a
proud moment for my company."

For end users, Yellow Dog Linux v6.1 offers an updated Firefox and
OpenOffice.org, a vastly improved graphical wireless configuration tool, and
the introduction of ps3vram functionality which enables use of PS3 video RAM
for temporary storage or swap.

For developers, v6.1 offers the latest stable kernel, an updated GCC, the open
portion of the IBM Cell SDK v3.1, and through a working relationship with the
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, YDL v6.1 now ships with the new Cell
Superscalar.

With the appearance of new multicore processor architectures, the Cell
Broadband Engine included, there is a need for new programming paradigms.
CellSs is a programming model that addresses the automatic exploitation of
functional parallelism from a sequential application with annotations.

Yellow Dog Linux v6.1 supports:
- Sony PS3.
- Apple PowerPC G4, G5.
- YDL PowerStation.
- IBM System p (JS2x, 510, 520, 540).

Yellow Dog Linux v6.1 offers these updates over v6.0:
- Kernel 2.6.27
- GCC 4.1.2
- Cell SDK 3.1
- Firefox 3.0
- OpenOffice 2.3 (v3.0 coming to YDL.net Enhanced soon!)
- X.org 1.4.999 with xrandr 1.2.2
- Dramatically improved, automated wireless config.
- GUI configuration tool for YDL.net.
- Bluetooth support for the PS3 Sixaxis controller.
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center CellSs.
- ps3vram for fast, temp file storage or swap using video RAM.

Users often state that YDL is the simplest to install of any distribution.
Post-installation, the default applications are a makes-sense offering of the
industry standards: Firefox web browser, Thunderbird email, Pidgin IM/IRC
client, Ekiga voice over IP, OpenOffice, gThumb and GIMP, the Fluendo
multimedia player installer, and a suite of personal accessories.

To learn more about the default installed applications, visit:
http://us.fixstars.com/products/ydl/apps.shtml

The FireFox home page offers a tutorial for YDL and E17:
http://us.fixstars.com/support/configuration/

YDL v6.1 will be available by the close of today via YDL.net
Enhanced accounts which may be purchased at:
http://us.fixstars.com/store/

The physical DVD sets will ship from Fixstars in 2 weeks. The public mirrors
will offer v6.1 downloads in one month.

PS3 60GB [CECHA01], FW 3.15, YDL 6.2, Samsung T260HD @ 1920x1200
Powermac G4 1.25 GHz x2, 2 GB RAM, YDL 6.2
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