[mythtv-users] Best distro for PS3

[Florin Andrei]

Jon Bishop wrote:
> 
> So, as I understand it, the system itself has PLENTY of power to do  
> this playback, but someone really familiar with the PS3 would need to  
> make a PS3 native frontend in order to unlock that power?

Yes. The Cell processor is quite tremendous, they do relativity and 
gravity and black holes research on it...

http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html

...but all that power is in 6 (8 on the chip, one disabled from factory, 
one reserved for the hypervisor) "co-processors" called SPUs which are 
very different from the PowerPC core also present in the Cell unit. You 
must write specific code if you want to use the SPU.

Running Yellow Dog 6 on the PS3 (a Redhat derivative for the PS3), the 
OS feels pretty sluggish, the browser is slow, scripting is slow, "yum 
update" takes forever. All that would change if the apps could use the 
SPUs, but currently only custom scientific software can do that.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/