Archive for November 2006
PS3s w/ Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed & 20 or 60 GB drives from Terra Soft
Posted on: Thursday 30 November 2006
Starting this week, Terra Soft Solutions, makers of Yellow Dog Linux, will sell you a Sony PlayStation3 with either 20GB or 60GB hard drives with YDL v.5 pre-installed. It will ship with the most current version of YellowDog Linux pre-installed. International orders are only allowed from corporations, governments, or education firms, no individuals
Japan’s Vine Linux project team, whose distribution features an integrated Japanese or English environment for desktop PCs and notebooks, today released its version 4.0 for i386 and PowerPC* processors. The distro features a 2.6.16 kernel and the GNOME 2.14.2 desktop environment.
*Works on both New World and Old World Apple Macintosh Computers.
Terra Soft Announces Cell Cluster Construction Suite, Y-HPC v2.0
Posted on: Tuesday 28 November 2006
Y-HPC v2.0 is a cross architecture cluster construction suite for Linux with immediate support for all existing Cell products. This industry first provides for rapid cluster node imaging of both x86 and PPC nodes, including immediate support for Intel, Opteron, Apple G3/G4/G5, IBM JS20/21 and p5; IBM QS20, Mercury Cell Blade/1U/CAB, and Sony PS3.
Six months of design, engineering, integration, and testing has culminated in the finest release from Terra Soft to date. Designed, not just assembled, Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 featuring E17 is immediately available for your Sony PlayStation 3.
Installation Guide for Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 on Sony PlayStation®3 Released
Posted on: Monday 27 November 2006
From the Guide: “Yellow Dog Linux for PS3 combines a simple to use graphical installer with leading-edge components and a foundation of must-have home, office, and server applications. Everything you need to browse the web, check and compose email, do your school homework or take your office work home is included with more than 2000 packages on the Install DVD.”
Massive Update Completed on YDL.net. A place for Yellow Dog Linux users.
Posted on: Sunday 26 November 2006
YDL.net just had its massive overhaul completed with many new Enhanced features. YDL.net is a place for Yellow Dog Linux users. This is where YDL enthusiasts gain early access to the latest, greatest Linux for PowerPC, discuss their lives via blogs, and receive support from Terra Soft engineers. A coterie for newbies, geeks, and everyone inbetween.
Putin’s Russia Threatening to Close Churches, Assassinate Religious Leader!
Posted on: Sunday 26 November 2006
Persecutions against the ROAC in Russia increase! In Russia, at the MP’s (The”Official” State-Run Church, the Moscow Patriarchate) request, the Russian government has increased its attacks on the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC). Threatening to take the temples of this Church made up mostly of Catacomb Christians and murder their leader!
Microsoft’s cunning plan to be the ruler of Linux has hit a slight snag. Its Linux ally Novell is not going along with its plans to force Linux distributors to join its approved partners, pay up or be sued, and the Open Source community has a counter attack planned …
Release of Yellow Dog 5.0 for Sony PS3 moved up! Now available this Sunday!
Posted on: Friday 24 November 2006
Terra Soft will launch YDL 5.0 with support for Sony’s PlayStation 3. On Sunday, November 26 you get to download Install & Source ISOs of Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0 via YDL.net Enhanced. On Monday, December 11 you can purchase DVDs from the Terra Soft Store. On the week of Western Christmas you can download the Install and Source ISOs via free public mirrors.
General Thanksgiving
By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Hou∫es of Congress have, by their joint committee, reque∫ted me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to e∫tabli∫h a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and a∫∫ign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of the∫e States to the ∫ervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our ∫incere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the ∫ignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpo∫itions of His providence in the cour∫e and conclu∫ion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have ∫ince enjoyed;– for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to e∫tablish Con∫titutions of government for our ∫afety and happine∫s, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;– for the civil and religious liberty with which we are ble∫∫ed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffu∫ing useful knowledge;– and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been plea∫ed to confer upon us.
And also, that we may then unite in mo∫t humbly offering our prayers and ∫upplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and be∫eech Him to pardon our national and other tran∫gre∫∫ions;– to enable us all, whether in publick or private ∫tations, to perform our ∫everal and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a ble∫∫ing to all the people by con∫tantly being a Government of wi∫e, ju∫t, and con∫titutional laws, di∫creetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all ∫overeigns and nations (especially ∫uch as have shewn kindne∫s unto us); and to ble∫s them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increa∫e of con∫cience among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind ∫uch a degree of temporal pro∫perity as he alone knows to be be∫t.
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand ∫even hundred and eighty-nine.
(signed) G. Washington
Good article on the pros and cons to install Linux on your Mac. Describes how Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 would look on a Mac (with pics) and a personal perspective on Linux on a Mac. Interesting …
This topic covers the configuration of Apple brand AirPort 802.11b wireless cards included in Macintosh computers. Please note that these details cover AirPort usage with Yellow Dog Linux’s shipping 2.2.x or 2.4.x kernels only.
Fedora Weekly News Issue 67 reports that Timothy Lauridsen has made a build of the current development branch 1.9.x of the YUM Extender Next Generation. This PreRelease1 version is a total rewrite of Yum Extender from scratch for better speed and to make it easier to use. YumEx is a GUI for the YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) Package Manager.
With Christmas around the corner, you’ll be glad to know that you can check out over 100 vendors around the globe who offer desktop and notebook computers with GNU/Linux pre-installed. Put another way, LXer’s Pre-Installed Linux Vendor database is now available! All vendors in the list offer reasonably-priced desktops and/or notebooks.
As a part of sample PS3 Linux distribution, they provide following documents.
* Linux Kernel Overview
* How to Enable Your Distro
* Booting Linux and Installation
* Platform Specific Utilities
* Application Programming Environment
* Cell Programming Primer
The Other OS installer for PS3 is now available. As yet the confirmed other OS is Fedora 5 (unofficial) and Yellow Dog Linux. Fedora Core is available to download included with boot loader so that it can be now installed on the Sony PlayStation®3.
PS3 Linux kernel patch and documentation released! Any PPC distro will work!
Posted on: Friday 17 November 2006
The day of the Japanese PS3 launch came and went. And with it, it brought along a ton of news. But you still haven’t seen the best bit yet! You see, before Sony even released more info about Yellow Dog Linux for the PS3, Power Developer has already released kernel patches and a bootloader so that you can try out Linux on your PS3.
How to install another OS (like Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0) on your Sony PS3!
Posted on: Friday 17 November 2006
Not only can you swap 2.5″ SATA HDD, you can change the operating system (OS) software. 1. Insert the disc or storage media that contains the installer in the system. 2. Select (System Settings) under (Settings) in the home menu. 3. Select [Install Other OS]. The system searches for the installer. When the installer is found, its content and location will be displayed. 4. Check the content of the installer, and then select [OK]. The installer starts. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the operation.
Two weeks before YellowDog Linux is scheduled to release, the creators of Fedora Core 5 have released an add-on disc to make their popular Linux Distro usable on the PlayStation 3. While neither form of Linux may be used until Sony releases their OtherOS installer, Sony is purported to be releasing it in the near future.
Available for download today on Power Developer are the patches to Linux kernel 2.6.19 and corresponding documentation and bootloader required to make Linux boot on the Playstation 3.
Sony already announced Linux would run on retail PS3 consoles (TerraSoft Solutions announced a while ago that their Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 would run on PS3.) Today it looks like Sony might even go futher with this and also allow homebrew applications on the PS3. Interesting info was posted on the official PlayStation site: “PLAYSTATION3 allows any desired third-party system software to be installed on it besides its system software provided by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.”
PS3: Is History Repeating Itself? Is Sony poised to repeat its success with the PS2?
Posted on: Wednesday 15 November 2006
The winning formula? Convincing parallels between the PS2 and PS3. No console maker has ever dominated three consecutive platform generations. Atari squandered its head start in the 80s, Nintendo lost its near monopolistic stranglehold in the 90s, and now it’s Sony’s turn to pass the baton. Or is it? The PS3 may have seen its share of negative press lately, but Sony seems to be lining up a perfect repeat success of the PS2. The outlook for PS3 is actually not all that different as it was for the PS2 when it was first introduced in 2000. Don’t believe us? Check out these examples of history repeating itself including, “Making a big deal out of Linux for PlayStation (2 then and 3 now), enabling the system to essentially perform as a fully functional computer and allow for homebrew development.”
RTFM: Secrets for Sony PlayStation 3’s fashionably early manual
Posted on: Wednesday 15 November 2006
Tons of video playback options: “Play video files saved on a USB mass storage device.” Tons of video codec support; including MPEG-2 and H.264. Support for multiple operating systems: this is where your Yellow Dog Linux goes. PSone/PS2 memory card support. PSP Remote Play: you’ll need a PS3 “equipped with the wireless LAN feature,” it says.
Linux for Sony’s PlayStation 2 (PS2) plus monitor cable now only €25.
Posted on: Tuesday 14 November 2006
Linux for PlayStation 2 is a simple bundle consisting of the Linux installation DVDs, and a monitor cable, intended to be of interest to Linux hobbyists and games/graphics programmers. The HDD, network adaptor, keyboard and mouse components are no longer available. The Linux bundle of monitor cable and installation DVDs is available for just €25.
America’s founders did not intend for there to be a separation of God and state, as shown by the fact that all 50 states acknowledge God in their state constitutions. Somewhere along the way, the Federal Courts and the Supreme Court have misinterpreted the U. S. Constitution. How could all fifty States be wrong?
HOW TO: Playing MP3s under Fedora or any Red Hat Based Linux Desktop System
Posted on: Monday 13 November 2006
Because of Licensing issue all Red Hat based distributions like Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Workstation and other distros such as CentOS and Yellow Dog Linux do not ship MP3 and DVD players. In order to enable them you need to use YUM to install them or a RPM command to install them. But how and where do you do this? This How To will show you.
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When will YDL v5.0 Ship? Terra Soft will maintain its tradition of a 3-phase product roll-out, starting with delivery via a completely redesigned and rebuilt YDL.net suite of services.
1. Monday, November 27: Download Install & Source ISOs via YDL.net Enhanced.
2. Monday, December 11: Purchase DVDs from the Terra Soft Store.
3. The week of December 25: Download Install & Source ISOs via the public mirrors.
Linux Distro Timeline
Posted on: Sunday 12 November 2006
This is a Linux distro time line showing the evolution of Linux spanning from 1991 to 2007. I thought this would interest people who are familiar with Linux as it shows how widely Linux has grown with it’s many distributions. Very cool.
The power of Linux harvested in a child’s mind and the power of Linux saving businesses money, time, and space. The future is open …
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Three teenage girls were walking to a Christian school through a cocoa plantation in Poso Kota when they were attacked by men dressed in black and wielding machetes.The severed heads of the dead girls were found several miles away from the bodies. One was placed in front of a church and the other two near a police station. A 4th girl was brutally attacked but escaped with her life — barely.
Terra Soft Solution’s showcase at SC2006, Florida — November 11-17
Posted on: Saturday 11 November 2006
Terra Soft is for the 2nd year a guest of IBM (#1205) and Mercury Computer (#1135) where Yellow Dog Linux v5.0, Y-HPC v2.0, and Y-Bio v1.1 will be showcased on Cell blades (IBM QS20 and Mercury Cell respectively). In addition, Penguin Computing is showcasing Y-Bio v1.1 in the new Scyld Life Sciences Suite (#435). The PS3 running YDL is rumored too.
Why won’t Linux support mp3, DVD, and selected wifi cards out of the box?
Posted on: Friday 10 November 2006
This question is asked again and again. Short answer — copyright/IP laws prevent shipping all the software and technologies/plug-ins with each Linux distro. Some distributions come with all these goodies but they are not free. So how do I get mp3s and other stuff working? The following shows you the work around in most distributions!
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