Go Fedora/PPC ....
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/19/fedora-linux-up-and-running-on-playstatio...
Not officially supported yet but we should have a build of FC6+updates to install on it some time soon just as we did FC4+updates for the Pegasos II, and of course we intend FC7 to support it out of the box.
There are other new PowerPC machines in the works too. Who needs Apple? :)
Thank you for the links David.
I just read with some downhearted feelings a linux.com article about Ubuntu Linux possibly dropping PPC support as they are not seeing a lot of demand for it.
I know that YellowDog Linux is doing Linux for the PS3 as well...I just hope no one on the fedora side of things decides to drop fedora ppc anytime soon.
I and my brother have access to a few older ppc macintoshes cheaply and have been quite happy with fedora or yellowdog replacing MacOSX on them.
My current G3 will be fedora ppc or dual boot with MacOSX soon as well...Right now I still must use Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver every day...and am having issues with a large hard drive and partition sizes so no fedora ppc just yet...
James Rooker
--- David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org wrote:
Go Fedora/PPC ....
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/19/fedora-linux-up-and-running-on-playstatio...
Not officially supported yet but we should have a build of FC6+updates to install on it some time soon just as we did FC4+updates for the Pegasos II, and of course we intend FC7 to support it out of the box.
There are other new PowerPC machines in the works too. Who needs Apple? :)
-- dwmw2
Fedora-ppc mailing list Fedora-ppc@lists.infradead.org
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:24 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
Go Fedora/PPC ....
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/19/fedora-linux-up-and-running-on-playstatio...
Not officially supported yet but we should have a build of FC6+updates to install on it some time soon just as we did FC4+updates for the Pegasos II, and of course we intend FC7 to support it out of the box.
There are other new PowerPC machines in the works too. Who needs Apple? :)
I know this is not really fedora related, but I thought the PS4 used the cell processor, not a PowerPC processor, and that the cell processors were dramatically different to the PPC.
What gives?
R.
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 21:21 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
I know this is not really fedora related, but I thought the PS4 used the cell processor, not a PowerPC processor, and that the cell processors were dramatically different to the PPC.
What gives?
Cell is PowerPC with extra processing units. For more details, see Google or http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1.ars
Fedora has supported the Cell processor since Fedora Core 5 -- I believe that Fedora is still the only OS which IBM ships on their Cell blades.
At Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:21:15 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
I know this is not really fedora related, but I thought the PS[3] used the cell processor, not a PowerPC processor, and that the cell processors were dramatically different to the PPC.
What gives?
The Cell is a PowerPC plus 8 co-processors. The OS runs on the PowerPC core.
-bri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
Cell combines a general-purpose Power Architecture core of modest performance with streamlined coprocessing elements which greatly accelerate multimedia and vector processing applications, as well as many other forms of dedicated computation.
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The PPE will work with conventional operating systems due to its similarity to other 64-bit PowerPC processors, while the SPEs are designed for vectorized floating point code execution.
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