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Cell processor specialist buys Yellow Dog Linux

heise-online.co.uk — Fixstars, a Japanese vendor specialising in software for the Cell processor, has bought Terra Soft Solutions, creators of the PowerMac and PlayStation 3 Linux distribution Yellow Dog.

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  • shrewduser, on 11/13/2008, -0/+3interesting piece of tech/linux news, i wonder if they want to bring PPC back to the consumer or just have a specialist use for linux in mind....

    i miss having another big chip player in the desktop market....
  • Ecowarrior, on 11/13/2008, -0/+1There are a lot of PPC chips on the market and a very, very, very few cell devices as well.

    As far as I can tell the PPC will not return to, nor the Cell break into the consumer multi-purpose computer market.

    Pity that

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