Yellow Dog Linux

Yellow Dog Linux
DeveloperFixstars Solutions
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source
Final release7.0 / August 6, 2012 (2012-08-06)
PlatformsPOWER7, Cell
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux kernel)
Default
user interface
Enlightenment
LicenseGNU GPL, LGPL, others
Official websiteus.fixstars.com/products/ydl/what/overview/

Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is a discontinued free and open-source operating system for high-performance computing on multi-core processor computer architectures, focusing on GPU systems and computers using the POWER7 processor. The original developer was Terra Soft Solutions, which was acquired by Fixstars in October 2008. Yellow Dog Linux was first released in the spring of 1999 for Apple Macintosh PowerPC-based computers. The last version, Yellow Dog Linux 7, was released on August 6, 2012. Yellow Dog Linux lent its name to the popular YUM Linux software updater, derived from YDL's YUP (Yellowdog UPdater) and thus called Yellowdog Updater, Modified.