[plug] Linux on PS/3?

[Fred Janon]

Thanks for the feedback Ron. I am looking forward to seeing your demo,
too bad it's a month away!

Fred

--- Ronald Jones <ronald3791 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am giving the PS3 demonstration at iVEC.
> 
> As Dion said Yellowdog has a nice distro and it is the simplest we  
> found to install. It is the one we use.
> 
> FC is the best to set up the Cell Simulator in. Use the 32 bit
> version  
> of FC and the Cell Simulator stuff installs without a hitch.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Ron
> 
> On 30/03/2008, at 10:25 AM, Dion 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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> 
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