14 DAY TRIAL // Officially announced on June 29th by Fixars Solutions, Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 has just been made available for download on mirrors worldwide! Among the new features brought by Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 we can mention the ability to install and boot from a USB flash drive and an improved PS3VRAM, in order to offer an increase in speed of up to 50% compared to Yellow Dog Linux 6.1. There is also very good news for wireless users, as the Wicd application offers more reliable WPA and WEP security protocols. Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 comes packed with over 600 packages and 2500 new ones are available via the EPEL repository!
Highlights of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2:
· USB boot and install support; · Linux Kernel 2.6.29 PPC64; · Linux Kernel 2.6.27 PPC32; · Added the Xfce 4 desktop environment; · Updated IMB Cell SDK to version 3.1.0.1; · Updated the OpenOffice.org office suite to version 3.0; · Updated Mozilla Firefox web browser to version 3.0.6; · Improved wireless support; · Improved Shockwave Flash support; · Better PS3VRAM support; · Updated Gnash to version 0.8.4; · Added Libfreevec.
Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 is available for:
- Sony PlayStation 3; - Apple PowerPC G4 and G5; - YDL PowerStation;
Don't forget to check out our How to Install Yellow Dog Linux on PlayStation 3 tutorial!
The regular installation of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 will provide a beautiful and eye-candy Enlightenment E17 window manager, Mozilla Firefox 3 as the default web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird as the default e-mail client and the popular Pidgin as the multi-protocol Instant Messenger client. There's also the popular OpenOffice.org office suite, Ekiga for VoIP communications, gThumb and GIMP for your image viewing/editing needs, the Fluendo multimedia codec installer, and many other useful utilities.
Download Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 right now from Softpedia.