Yellow Dog Linux

Yellow Dog Linux (abbreviated, YDL) is a Linux distribution created to support the PowerPC processor. It was first released in 1999 for the Apple Macintosh Inc. Yellow Dog Linux is a product of Terra Soft Solutions, Colorado, USA, a company specializing in Linux-based software for the Power architecture, and is based on CentOS and Fedora.

On November 11, 2008 Fixstars buys Terrasoft, taking over all rights to Yellow Dog Linux.

Yellow Dog Linux is primarily targeted at Apple Macintosh computers, IBM BladeCenter JS2x and P5 Series servers, Mercury XR9, PlayStation 3, and various other systems and platforms built around the Power PC architecture., such as those marketed by Fixstars itself (such as the YDL PowerStation).

The latest stable version is 6.2 from June 29, 2009. The previous one was 6.1, which was released on November 19, 2008.

Features

Yellow Dog Linux is a derivative of Fedora Core and is based on the RPM package manager. Through the successive versions of Yellow Dog Linux, Terra Soft Solutions has invested heavily in the support application specifically for IBM and Apple hardware. As a result, Yellow Dog Linux supports graphics and audio acceleration out of the box, although some other hardware components, such as Apple's 802.11g AirPort Extreme IEEE 802.11g wireless cards (found in PowerBooks and iBooks) do not work properly without modifications. in the core.

Since v5.0, Yellow Dog Linux includes by default an Enlightenment window manager as the default desktop, although it also supports and incorporates other environments such as KDE, GNOME and Xfce.

Applications for Yellow Dog

Gcalctool: is a powerful graphing calculator with financial, logical and scientific modes. It uses a multi-precision package to do the arithmetic, providing a high degree of precision.

Xpad: text editor with the possibility of putting notes on the screen

Evolution: personal content manager with email client.

Gnome-dictionary: is a program that allows you to comfortably access the various DICT format dictionary servers available on the Internet, such as Freedict.de, or to use locally installed servers and dictionaries.

Gnome-terminal: is a terminal emulator for XFree86 written by Havoc Pennington and others.

Vncviewer: is a tool for your device with which you can view and control your PC's desktop from your own device.

Screen Capture: application to take screenshots

Gedit: text editor is characterized mainly by its ease of use, achieved largely thanks to a clear and clean graphical interface, showing only the main features that most users usually require.

Functions:

• Internationalized text support, using UTF-8 encoding.
• Text coloring according to the syntax of several programming languages: C, C++ Java, Python...etc.
• Multi-lingual spelling.
• Incorporation of plugins to expand the basic features of the program.
• Possibility to change the color and source of the editor's text.
• Number of lines.
• Text search and replacement.
• Editing files remotely.
• Backup of the files you work on.

Premieres

Distributed on two DVDs (one installation and one source), a YDL 4.1 has more than 1000 packages. Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 is one of the first Linux distributions to run on PlayStation 3. It has been designed specifically for HDTV SDTV so users will need to use the 'installtext ' and 'ydl480i' to be able to install and run.

Distribution

Yellow Dog Linux is available in two editions that offer two DVDs (installation and sources) for between $50 and $100 (with or without documentation). Part of the money produced by these distributions finances the development of the operating system. The packaging is designed to match the white polycarbonate casing of the latest PowerPCs, iMacs and iBooks, computers on which the desktop version is likely to run.

As with most Linux distributions, Terra Soft Solutions also makes Yellow Dog Linux available as a free download from public FTP.