Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 10th Feb 2008 00:26 UTC
Terra Soft has announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 for Sony PlayStation 3, Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p, a CentOS and Fedora-based specialist distribution designed for the Power architecture.
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2005-08-11
Oh, it's there. The PS3 is just a low end, PPC-based computer with limited memory and this interesting feature where it has half a dozen processors that can do fast math like crazy. I've been watching to see what interesting apps develop from this interesting feature, but so far, it's mostly a lot of success stories where so-and-so needed a super computer, bought X number of PS3s instead, and is now making scientific calculations on the cheap with great results, but their code won't help anyone who isn't (for example) calculating the trajectories of raindrops in a hurricane.
There are a couple of cool things like toolkits and ray tracers, but nothing yet that turns the PS3 into a super cool server appliance or desktop wonder.