Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 07:17 UTC
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. will announce tomorrow world's first consumer priced ATX form-factor PowerPC motherboard with full Linux support. Terra Soft, also creators of Yellow Dog Linux, will be selling both the PPC motherboard and a fully equipped computer that will be capable of running YDL 2.3. This will give a new face to the consumer Linux landscape, as Linux effectivelly gets its own platform rather than getting installed side by side with other OSes. Check inside for two pages with pictures of the hardware, information and an interview with TerraSoft's co-founder, Kai Staats.
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David McPaul: if you would like to see an AmigaOne, you should surf the net a little more widely, my A1G3SE board can be seen at the local (Sydney Amiga User Group) SAUG meeting, and was first shown in October. The meeting is in Epping, NSW. http://welcome.to/SAUG. You just missed the meeting this month, next meeting is next year. The board is running Debian 3.0. We also have MOL running on it.
Eugenia: Please familiarise yourself with what an AmigaOne IS. http://www.eyetch.co.uk/amigaone. It is basically a TeronCX, the AmigaOne/TeronCX specific ppcboot firmware was written by Hyperion - well known Amiga developers. (If you read web sites/listen to MP3s you will find this). The difference is that an AmigaOne can run OS4, but the TeronCX cannot, since it is not licenced to run OS4. A licenced board contains special additional ROM code.
Consumer PPC boards with Linux is not exactly an exclusive, nor a world first, both AmigaOne/Teron CX and the Pegasos boards are consumer boards that can run PowerPC Linux, and news of them has been out for a _very_ long time now. They have also been dislayed numerous times. The AmigaOne is available for order from the Eyetech web site.
MorphOS is intended for the Pegasos which has OpenFirmware. The AmigaOne/Teron CX ppcboot firmware is not OpenFirmware, so that means MorphOS would not run on the AmigaOne/TeronCX at present.
All this information is freely available on the internet.
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