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Playstation 3 to ship with Linux

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RaZoR1394:
Yes, as I said in the Xbox360/Mac thread this will be a big reason for me to buy a PS3 instead of a Xbox360. I've also rethinked a lot of points like supporting MS and using their closed OS etc. With the PS3 you will obviously be able to use a lot of os:es like Tiger, PS3 and maybe Gentoo. With the Xbox360 I would have to buy a modchip to do something like that.

I also heard a rumor that the main PS3 OS will be based on linux. Is that true??? That would be awesome.

choasforages:
yeah....but from what iv been reading, unless your an ASM god, the xbox 360 will be the fastest system. it has a wicked tri core ppc 970, that supports some form of multithreading. so it will look to the os as 6 cpus. sony's hardware is traditionaly known for being a real bitch to program for. the cell, like the emotion engine, will require some grotesque work on gcc to pump out optimized bins for it. however the playstation three would probably be better for editing media, and the xbox360 would probably make a great server..........just hope microsoft keeps up there good work with security so i can do such things to there boxen

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