James A. Peltier wrote:
Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3? I would like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if anyone had any experiences.
I installed recently Yellow Dog Linux 6 on the PS3. It's trivial to install, since Terra Soft is in the business of selling PS3 clusters with YDL pre-installed, so they take care to make it as easy as possible for the user. It comes with the Cell SDK included, if you select the Development Packages group while doing the install. It has a non-trivial-sized community of users running YDL on PS3 (and other Cell- and PPC-based devices).
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewforum.php?f=19
It is very compatible with FC6 or CentOS5 for PPC, to the point where you can actually enable PPC yum repositories for those distros in YDL6 and it works fine. I forgot which one I enabled, I think it's either Fedora Extras or EPEL, and pulled packages via yum and had no issues.
I suspect YDL6 is actually a PPC rebuild of RH5, with some tweaks, but I'm not sure.
So yeah, I would normally use CentOS, but after comparing several distros for the PS3, YDL came up as the no-brainer choice.