Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Nov 2008 22:12 UTC
Terra Soft Solutions, the company behind Yellow Dog Linux and the PowerStation PowerPC workstation (among other things) has been acquired by Fixstars Corporation from Japan, a company solely focused on the Cell/B.E. broadband engine. The entire product line and staff of Terra Soft Solutions will be maintained in Loveland, Colorado.
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2007-06-28
that's not actually true! terra soft thrived *because* people wanted an alternative to os x! heck, the sole reason i continued to stick with ppc linux for so long was altivec! which, until the core-series intel chips, remained fairly unparalleled for certain tasks that a desktop user could need. for example, media creation. (and, that's my niche, fyi) i have an all OSS recording studio setup. additionally, i often transcode audio and video. the g4 and g5 series chips did a great job, at the time. i didn't actually leave the ppc linux desktop until january 2008!
so, there was quite a bit of time after os x was introduced that people were still running linux on ppc machines. as a matter of fact, many people started running linux as a leaner alternative to os x. mac os x was pretty sluggish and underwhelming until 10.3, imho.
of course, terra soft shifted focus to servers and HPC after the apple-intel switcheroo. but, they were doing fairly well with the desktop crowd until the final days of PPC macs.
Edited 2008-11-12 07:08 UTC