The Open Desktop Workstation has a micro-ATX form factor, both
Gigabit and 10/100 Ethernet ports, an AGP slot, three low-profile PCI slots, and multiple FireWire
and USB ports.
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Running Yellow Dog Linux 12
The bottom line here is that you can expect Yellow Dog Linux to continue its support for Power
Architecture on both server and desktop systems. So, Apple users who love their PowerPCs can
find a way to continue using that hardware by moving over to a Yellow Dog Linux system. Also,
because of the Power Architecture??™s support for multimedia hardware and Yellow Dog??™s inclusion of
software for playing a variety of audio and video content, the combination adds a bit of sparkle to
the standard Linux desktop systems that are around today.
Digging into Yellow Dog
Yellow Dog Linux offers a Fedora, RPM-based distribution that is highly compatible with most
available open source software. By basing the Yellow Dog distribution on a widely deployed and
used x86 distribution such as Red Hat??™s Fedora, Terra Soft Solutions has been able to quickly
deploy a very uniform, user-friendly experience for its user base. This section takes a look at some
of the highlights of the Yellow Dog distribution.
This chapter focuses on Yellow Dog 5.0.2, which was released in June 2007 and is the
latest version of Yellow Dog Linux that is freely available at the time of this writing.
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