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Daedulus
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22 Dec 2008, 3:22 am

Anyone here have any success installing Linux on the PS3? does not really matter which flavour persay.
I am really interested in the Cell Architecture particularly in regards to Genetic Programming



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23 Dec 2008, 12:37 am

Never mind I got Gentoo to install, something about those SPUs make me happy.



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25 Dec 2008, 12:06 am

A ps3 is just a computer with a nice graphics card and a nice OS. it works with Linux/Windows because it has the same CPU architecture.


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25 Dec 2008, 2:10 am

I have a PS3 and they are nice pieces of hardware. They might not have the greatest game titles, and the Blu-Ray format may or may not survive, but there are soo many other things you can do with them.
I think I read somewhere the new 45nm Cell processors are capable of up to 6Ghz or more.