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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This is a great scoop and good news! However, don't expect YDL to be anywhere approaching fast on this MB/computer. YDL is really a mixed bag. Geeks will like tinkering with it, but it will be sluggish and some things will proabably not work right. It does have apt-get from the command line, which is easy. I had it on an 800 MHz iMac with 1 GB RAM and it was pretty sluggish on that. I do like this though and hope they can make progress and continue in this endeavor.