From what I have seen of the several videos of both YDL and Fedora Core distributions on the PS3, I am cautiously optimistic. The graphics seemed faster than one would expect from just a framebuffer and I think I can live with it as both a computer for mundane uses (web browsing, email, etc.) and software development on the Cell (my main interest). It just might serve as a platform for me to migrate to after Apple's unfortunate recent switch of architectures. Possible support of the hardware might come latter, though I am not holding my breath (until then, I can do my number crunching on the PS3 and use my Powerbook for graphics via the 1000baseT connection).
On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://ps3mods.blogspot.com/2006/11/ps3-and-yellow-dog-linux- > playing-1080i.html > > Someone else might want to try this in order to verify the validity > of the video. I'd love to besides the fact that I don't yet have a > ps3. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Saturday, December 2, 2006 19:24 > Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3 > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > <[email protected]> > > > > > On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:26 PM, drbob wrote: > > > > > Warren Nagourney wrote: > > > > > > As a potential end user, one of my the biggest things that > > excited me > > > about the PS3 was the potential to use it as a High Definition > > Mythtv> frontend. I'm now worried that this may not be possible. > > > > > > Framebuffer graphics are often inadequate to play back even a > > standard> def mpeg on x86 hardware without a lot of skipped > > frames and juddering > > > in the picture. Does this news mean that PS3 Linux will be > > pretty much > > > useless for video playback in SD and/or HD? > > > > There was some brief discussion of this on the Myth user's list > > the > > other day. Without any accelerated video I think HD would be > > pretty > > much out of the question, and even SD would be questionable. > > > > So at least for now it's not a viable HD frontend. Too bad, it > > would > > have been great, but things might well change in the future. > > If > > somebody were to develop commercial video drivers under an NDA > > I'd > > certainly consider paying for them. I paid for commercial Mach- > > 64 > > drivers back when that was the only way to get those cards to > > work > > properly in Linux. > > > > I believe in Open Source but I'm not a fanatic about it :-) > > > > Terrasoft has certainly taken the first step, without which no > > future > > progress would even be thinkable. > > > > But first we have to get our hands on the hardware, and > > competing > > with all the gamers out there will be a trial :-) > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog- > general > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
