Yellow Dog Linux 6.1, targeted to Apple G4/G5, Sony Playstation 3, PowerStation, and IBM Power Systems, has been released on November 19, 2008 offering several end-user and development tool improvements over the previous version. As always, Yellow Dog Linux is also built upon the qentOS foundation, a derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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According to the media release, Yellow Dog Linux v6.1 comes with Firefox 3.0 and OpenOffice.org 2.3 (v3.0 coming to YDL.net Enhanced soon), a vastly improved graphical wireless configuration tool, and the introduction of ps3vram functionality, which enables use of PS3 video RAM for temporary storage or swap, in addition
to the latest kernel 2.6.27. For developers, v6.1 offers GCC 4.1.2, the open portion of the IBM Cell SDK v3.1, and through a working relationship with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, YDL v6.1 now ships with the new Cell Superscalar.

The new version is available via YDL.net Enhanced accounts purchased at the Fixstars Store. The public mirrors will offer v6.1 dov<:nloads approximately by December 19, 2008.