More Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for PS3 details

Well, let’s make this previous article official and beefier, shall we? Yesterday, one of our writers found that Terra Soft‘s Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 will support the PS3. Well, today Terra Soft sent a press release to say exactly just that, plus announce even more never-before-heard details on how the Yellow Dog will hook up with the mother of all PS consoles.

Terra Soft brings Yellow Dog Linux to the PS3 under an agreement with SCEI (which partly answers yesterday’s question: why isn’t Sony releasing an announcement about this? Probably because they feel confident to leave it all to Terra Soft?). In developing v5.0, the company integrated and enhanced code from Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Sony Group, and Fedora to offer the following:

• kernel 2.6.16
• gcc 3.4.4 and glibc 2.4
• Cell SDK 1.1
• OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
• FireFox 1.5.0 and Thunderbird 1.5.0
• Nautilus 2.1.4
• … and a suite of Personal Accessories, Development Tools; Sound & Video, Internet, and Networking applications.

Installation can be one-click easy for the uninitiated, or options-diverse advanced to select from more than “fifteen hundred packages, as is expected from a complete Linux distribution.” We can assume that for the budding programmers out there (you know who you are), the SDK is going to be a must-have.

Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for the PS3 will be made available through YDL.net Enhanced accounts, through the Terra Soft on-line Store, retailers, and public mirrors worldwide. You’ll also know Terra Soft as the company that plans to make a supercomputer out of PS3s. Talk about a working relationship with Sony.

Well, let’s make this previous article official and beefier, shall we? Yesterday, one of our writers found that Terra Soft‘s Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 will support the PS3. Well, today Terra Soft sent a press release to say exactly just that, plus announce even more never-before-heard details on how the Yellow Dog will hook up with the mother of all PS consoles.

Terra Soft brings Yellow Dog Linux to the PS3 under an agreement with SCEI (which partly answers yesterday’s question: why isn’t Sony releasing an announcement about this? Probably because they feel confident to leave it all to Terra Soft?). In developing v5.0, the company integrated and enhanced code from Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Sony Group, and Fedora to offer the following:

• kernel 2.6.16
• gcc 3.4.4 and glibc 2.4
• Cell SDK 1.1
• OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
• FireFox 1.5.0 and Thunderbird 1.5.0
• Nautilus 2.1.4
• … and a suite of Personal Accessories, Development Tools; Sound & Video, Internet, and Networking applications.

Installation can be one-click easy for the uninitiated, or options-diverse advanced to select from more than “fifteen hundred packages, as is expected from a complete Linux distribution.” We can assume that for the budding programmers out there (you know who you are), the SDK is going to be a must-have.

Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for the PS3 will be made available through YDL.net Enhanced accounts, through the Terra Soft on-line Store, retailers, and public mirrors worldwide. You’ll also know Terra Soft as the company that plans to make a supercomputer out of PS3s. Talk about a working relationship with Sony.