PS3 has been just released in Japan. Here is the good news:
<before Sony even released more info about Yellow Dog Linux for the PS3,
Power Developer has already released kernel patches and a bootloader so that
you can try out Linux on your PS3.
Yes, this is huge news in itself. But that's not all. Apparently, you can
install ANY linux distro on your PS3 as long as it has a PowerPC build
available - and that includes just about every popular distribution of Linux
out there. A quick hop to my favorite distro websites shows that all of them
run on PowerPC processors, which means that all of them will probably run on
the PS3.
Here's a small list of the Linux distros which run on PowerPC (PPC)
Ubuntu
Fedora Core
SUSE (Paid) / openSUSE (Free)
Gentoo
(http://ps3.qj.net/Kernel-patches-and-documentation-for-PS3-Linux-Boot-any-PPC-linux-distro-on-your-PS3-/pg/49/aid/72608)
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IF CVI runtime can run on Linux, THAN we can have a pretty fast hardware
under it since the Cell processors is said to be fast-fast-fast!!!
I am waiting for the first report on how fast!
layosh
