Playstation 3 = New Linux hardware to play with

[Dale]

Hi All,

By what i have heard the PS3 is going to be on sale in March 2007 here
in Australia.  So you have a while to wait.

Dale

On 11/16/06, Nicholas Thiele <Thiele.Nicholas at transadelaide.sa.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Is it just me or is anyone else excited about Yellow Dog's new home on
> the Playstation 3?
>
> The cell processor in the PS3 is being used by IBM in some of their high
> end servers and it's coming to a lounge room near you.    This new
> hardware is a completely Micro$oft free zone and I can't wait to get my
> hands on one for my next Linux machine.
>
> Here's some info I have collected for anyone who is interested:
>
>         PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
>         512KB L2 cache
>         7 x SPE @3.2GHz
>         Total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS (2 Teraflops)
>         Nvidia graphics chip (based on GeForce 7800 GTX) with support
> for 1920 x 1080 resolution with progressive rendering
>         20-60g 2.5 inch hard drive (user upgradeable)
>         Bluetooth / 802.11
>
> Sony's Playstation 3 Open Platform site
> http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index.html
>
> http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/settings/osinstal
> l.html
>
> Terrasoft announce Yellow Dog Linux for PS3
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/
>         http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/faq/ps3-general.shtml
>
> Fedora and other distros on PS3
> http://ps3.qj.net/Kernel-patches-and-documentation-for-PS3-Linux-Boot-an
> y-PPC-linux-distro-on-your-PS3-/pg/49/aid/72608
>
> Cell vs. other processors (PDF)
> http://mc.com/literature/literature_files/Cell-Perf-Simple.pdf
>
> It comes out in America tomorrow but we have to wait until March!
>
> Regards,
> Nic Thiele
>
>
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