[mythtv-users] PS3 to come with full Linux

[Brian Wood]

On May 16, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Paul V. Gratz wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 03:56 am, Jo Shields wrote:
>> Ivan Kowalenko wrote:
>>
>> http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=9290
>
> Looks real!  I wonder if it will have the horsepower to run a full
> myth frontend without access full access to all the acceleration as
> the article says.  I suspect that this means that linux will only
> really have access to the PPC core of the cell and not the media
> cores, the PPC core is a pretty low end processor without the media
> cores.
> Paul


 From what I've read these things are going to be pretty expensive,  
even if it could run a frontend, at $500 to $600 there are certainly  
much cheaper alternatives.