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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Hi guys;
I'm with everyone else out there who wants to see quality PPC hardware targeted towards linux. In fact I was very hopefull when I first saw the announcements of this PPC Linux system.
Now that I've taken some time to reflect I'm not sure what to think. YDL seems to be after the server market with this hardware, yet the board itself implemnets a bare minimum of ports associated with server implementations. A video implementation is a minimal requirement, especially if an 1U implementation is in order.
On the positive side, if TSS should take advantage of it, is the potential for low power usage. To those of us who have systems powered up all the time that may be a selling point. But it doesn't look like a lot of effort was put into low cost operation either.
So at this time I'm not sure whom they are targeting market wise. It does seem to be grossly overpriced for what is now a low end board and processor combination. Maybe TSS will remake the board into a true low power platform with built in video and market it as such. That might sell.
the reality is for the money being asked a rather impressive system can be purchased using generic PC hardware. Might even be able to manage a raid implementation.
Thanks
dave