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Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 released

Posted by jfeedor | Posted in OpenSource | Posted on 01-07-2009

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The Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) developers have announced the release of version 6.2 of their PowerPC distribution that runs on the Sony PlayStation 3 and other computers with Cell processors, including IBM’s Cell blades. The new release upgrades the 64-bit Linux to 2.6.29 and includes components like IBM’s Cell SDK version 3.1.0.1, as well as OpenOffice 3.0 and Firefox 3.06.