Luke Scharf wrote: > Clark Pope wrote: >> Anyway, you're saying the way to go is FC6 and not YDL, right? Maybe >> Eric can confirm he plans to use FC6? > > I've been on the YDL list for a while, since we use them for their > Apple XServe support. (I run FC6 on my G5 Tower desktop, for the > reasons that I'll mention shortly). > > From the discussions I've read, it seems that if you want to fully > exploit the Cell parts of the CPU, YDL is probably the way to go -- at > least they're packaging a lot of Cell-specific development tools that > look like they could be useful. Also, the TerraSoft crew is quite > responsive to the needs of their scientific/numerical users. > > On the other hand, if you want something that looks like a regular > Linux desktop, then Fedora is certainly the way to go -- there are a > lot more pre-compiled packages, especially WRT desktop and multimedia > applications. Can anyone say anything more about Cell support on Fedora? > > Why not try both and see which one matches your needs better? > > -Luke
Most of IBM's development tools are built for FC5/6. I tried working with them under Ubuntu, but the amount of time to get everything working wasn't worth it and they worked out of the box/rpm under an FC6 installation. This stuff includes the SPU/PPU GCC compiler's, IBM's CELL compilers, the libspe2 library, the binutils, etc., as well as their simulation environment for not running on a cell machine. Now, I say this, but frankly, I don't like Fedora. If I could use Debian/Ubuntu on the PS3, I would, but for the tools support, this is just the way to go. Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio