Yellow Dog Linux
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| Developer | Fixstars Solutions |
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| OS family | Unix-like |
| Working state | Discontinued |
| Source model | Open source |
| Latest release | 7.0 / August 6, 2012 |
| Platforms | Power Architecture, Cell |
| Kernel type | Monolithic Linux kernel |
| Default user interface | Enlightenment |
| License | GNU GPL, LGPL, others |
| Official website | www |
Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is a free and open-source operating system for high-performance computing on multi-core processor computer architectures. It focuses on GPU systems and computers using the Power Architecture (POWER7). YDL is currently developed by Fixstars (which acquired Terra Soft Solutions in October 2008). Yellow Dog Linux was first released in the spring of 1999 for the Apple Macintosh PowerPC-based computers. The most recent version, Yellow Dog Linux 7, was released on August 6, 2012. Yellow Dog Linux lent its name to the popular yum Linux software updater; yum was derived from Yellow Dog's yup (Yellow Dog Updater) and thus called Yellowdog Updater, Modified.
Yellow Dog Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS and relies on the RPM Package Manager. Its software includes user applications such as Ekiga (a and videoconferencing application), GIMP (a raster graphics editor), Gnash (a free Adobe Flash player), gThumb (an image viewer), the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail and news client, the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Pidgin (an instant messaging and IRC client), the Rhythmbox music player, and the Noatun and Totem media players.
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