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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:56:28 -0600
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From: Kai Staats <kstaats@terraplex.com>
Subject: Powerful 3rd Party Software for Yellow Dog & Black Lab Linux:

Dear Associates of Terra Soft Solutions,

I am pleased to introduce Abria SQL, Linda, VAST & DEEP, and BRU for Yellow
Dog Linux and Black Lab Linux distributions for PowerPC. An Abria SQL CD
will be shipping with each set of Champion Server 1.2.1, available the
first week of October. These four additions to our already strong and
growing suite of applications demonstrates our commitment to offering
complete and well supported distributions. If you have any suggestions for
software that you would like to have ported, please deliver an email to
sales@terrasoftsolutions.com


"Abria" SQL by AbriaSoft
A turnkey installation of MySQL 3.22 and 3.23 (beta), Perl 5.6, Perl DBI
1.14, PHP 3 & 4, Apache Web Server 1.3.12, and Webmin. The installation
program intelligently handles upgrades, downgrades and complex dependency
conflicts and issues common with Linux software installations, allowing
anyone to benefit from the speed and power of MySQL immediately. Included
in the release of Abria SQL Standard are all of the features included in
Abria SQL Lite, comprehensive tools for managing MySQL and Apache Web
Server, and Webmin, which is the most popular web-based admin tool for
Apache.

An Abria SQL CD will ship with every Champion Server 1.2.1 set (1st week of
October): http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/intro_solutions.shtml#abria


"Linda" by Scientific Computing Associates
Through four simple commands to annotate codes and the precompiler,
developers can use Linda to "parallelize" existing serial applications,
enabling efficient, high-performance in a parallel computing environment.
Less time consuming than hand recoding, less expensive than traditional
super-computing, Linda and Black Lab Linux PowerPC clusters offer an ideal
parallel development and computing system.

Linda will be available soon from Terra Soft Solutions ...
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/intro_solutions.shtml#linda


"VAST" and "DEEP" by Pacific Sierra Research
VAST is a precompiler that automatically applies high-level vector and
parallel optimizations to C and Fortran programs.  Of specific interest is
VAST-C/AltiVec, which automatically vectorizes C programs for
AltiVec-enhanced C compilers, such as the modified gcc distributed by Black
Lab Linux. VAST can also automatically parallelize programs for SMP systems
and supports the OpenMP pragma suite, applicable to Apple's new
dual-processor systems.

DEEP is a highly graphical code analysis tool that combines compiler and
run-time performance information about AltiVec vectorization, MPI
performance, and SMP performance and relates everything back to the
original source code.  With DEEP, you can quickly locate performance
bottlenecks (scalar, vector, or parallel) in application codes.

VAST and DEEP will be available soon from Terra Soft Solutions ...
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/intro_solutions.shtml#psrv


"BRU" by Enhanced Software Tech
Industry recognized BRU Backup and Restore Utility v16.0 is now available
for Linux and Unix systems. BRU is a functionally-rich backup solution
designed for networked applications. BRU-PE (Personal Edition) now shares
the complete BRU feature set under a non-commercial personal use license.
To securely "push" data to BRU, BRU Client Packs are also available.

BRU will be available soon from Terra Soft Solutions ...
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/intro_solutions.shtml#bru


Sincerely,
kai