The loss of Linux for the PlayStation 3 is less about running Linux on 4-year old hardware. As powerful as the Cell CPU once was, the future of homebrew vector programming and high-performance scientific computing is going to be found in the world of the GPU and technologies such as NVIDIA Fermi, AMD Cypress, and Intel Larrabee.
Instead, the loss of Linux represents the end of an era for PlayStation. Through all of the hyperbole that characterized the PlayStation world of the last decade, there was a desire and passion to build something grander than just a simple game machine.
Sony je odlucio da izbaci Linux podrsku - parcijalno zato sto je PS3 Hypervisor ocigledno jedina slaba karika u celom sistemu (GeoHot je pre nekoliko nedelja objavio kod koji donekle kompromituje HV) a parcijalno zato sto PS3 ocigledno nije postao ono sto su originalno umislili da ce biti - "super masina" od igracke do kucnog superkompjutera.
Sony je ipak odlucio da se vrati onome sto zna najbolje - pravljenu skupih i zatarabljenih CE igracaka - i u tome su jako dobri.
Eh, a kada se samo setimo postova na ovom forumu iz daleke 2006-te... gde se najava Sony-ja da ce PS3 podrzavati Linux pimpovala kao "next big thing" za Linux :-)
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