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Thats why its sooo easy to get OS X up and running on the PS3 and the 360 :)

360? Hmm.. I suppose we are talking about the PPC versions of OSX before Apple switched to the x86 architect, right? If not, then your post is kinda misleading. But if so, then, erm, cool? Haha.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_3

There seems to be a wikipedia article for everything now. More than I could have said there. ;)

I'm sure the original poster already knew about that, but he was asking specifically if there was going to be a PPC version of Shift Linux, a question that no one has yet answered in this thread. I'd like to know too!

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There is no PPC version of Shift. PPC and Cell processors are still everywhere, and not only Apple used PPC. Shift would be great and would work fine on PPC, and the reason there is no Shift for the PPC architecture is simple: We don't have PPC hardware to build it on. Sure, we can grab PPC packages, but we can't install them onto Shift, so we can't put it together. If we had PPC hardware, putting it together wouldn't be hard.

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There is no PPC version of Shift. PPC and Cell processors are still everywhere, and not only Apple used PPC. Shift would be great and would work fine on PPC, and the reason there is no Shift for the PPC architecture is simple: We don't have PPC hardware to build it on. Sure, we can grab PPC packages, but we can't install them onto Shift, so we can't put it together. If we had PPC hardware, putting it together wouldn't be hard.

hmm... since the proyect is now shitching to Arch, perhaps we could use the PPC port as a base too? But then again, we would need some volunteers to check that it works...

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hmm... since the proyect is now shitching to Arch, perhaps we could use the PPC port as a base too? But then again, we would need some volunteers to check that it works...

I'd certainly be willing to test it on my PS3. It's currently running YellowDog 6.1.

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