Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Oct 2006 22:13 UTC, submitted by mike hess
Yellow Dog Linux 5 has been announced. Surprisingly, it will first be released for Sony's Playstation 3, and then later for PPC Macs. Yellow Dog Linux 5 for the Playstation 3 will use E17 as its desktop environment (YDL's page on E17), which will be a boost to E17's adoption rate. Sony had mentioned the PS3 would include Linux in some capacity, but it has been unclear how Linux would fit into the rest of the system.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Terrasoft really needed to do some thinking with 1) apple dropping ppc
PPC was not only used by Apple. IBM still use them.
and 2) (though you hear less about this aspect) fedora, which it's been built off of, now having it's own ppc version.
Yellow Dog is Fedora based distribution. Having an existing PPC version of Fedora actually simplifies Terrasoft tasks so they can fine tuning the source. The fact Fedora was used for CELL development is a bonus for them so they can apply their skill on PS3.
Edited 2006-10-17 00:38
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2005-08-28
I'm not actually an enlightenment user, though I have compiled and used e17, but this is quite the news to see. It's nice to have a somewhat prominent distro go out on a limb like that and step out of the KDE/GNOME desktop mold. Terrasoft really needed to do some thinking with 1) apple dropping ppc and 2) (though you hear less about this aspect) fedora, which it's been built off of, now having it's own ppc version.
I'd say targetting PS3s and switching to enlightenment is about as a different a direction of thinking they could have done (not to mention the work they've been doing with the HPC and bio stuff and such), while still being a dedicated PPC-only distro.