On 09/11/2007, Christopher Beal <Chris.Beal at sun.com> wrote: > I've been quietly lurking on this list for some time now. My motivation > for being here in the first place was that I'd love to see Solaris > running on some of the games consoles on the market. Wii and xbox360 are > based on a powerpc chip, and PS3 is based on a cell processor which has > (I believe) two powerpc cores for general purpose computing. The reason > for lurking is a complete lack of availability of hardware to do > anything with powerpc. > > I know these have been out of scope of this project, however my hobbyist > interest would be to get those running. > > As mentioned by others previously, the lack of hardware has been my > barrier to entry. An emulation environment would help greatly in getting > people involved.
To me, the PS3 is the best choice at the moment. It is readily available consumer hardware and the recent price drops make it increasingly attractive. It is a consistent well known platform; plus the GNU/Linux community has already done quite a bit of research and work on getting the hardware going. My only regret about it is how closed the platform is in certain hardware aspects. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
