[plug] Linux on PS/3?

[Fred Janon]

I am doing the research at the moment. I want to do some development
for the Cell Broadband Engine and IBM has FC for the PS/3 for that.
It's a pretty time consuming process according to what I read. That's a
pity that the PS/3 is one of most wanted game consoles, it makes it
more expensive to buy on the market at the moment but one the other
side it's a cheap Cell development workstation (remember the PowerPC
6000?).

iVec has a presentation in May where they use the PS/3 for
visualisation, for those who are interested.

Fred

--- Dion <tenzero at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Fred Janon wrote:
> > Has anyone installed Fedora Core on a Playstation 3?
> >   
> Um no.
> My understanding was that YellowDog had a nice distro with built in 
> support for the Playstation 3.
> 
> I think YellowDog defaults to an e17 desktop but has KDE and gnome a 
> short install away.
> 
> Is there some reason for wanting to put Fedora Core on it? I would go
> 
> with whomever has the best out of the box support for the PS3.
> 
> I believe that currently there are no accelerated graphics drivers --
> 
> but the nouveau driver writers were having some progress.
> 
> I would be interested to hear about how it performs no matter what 
> distro you get up and running with.
> 
> Good luck.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Fred
> >
> >   
> Cheers.
> D.
> 
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