Date: 06/24/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Bear in mind that the cell consists of an Altivec equiped PPC based main processor controlling an eight way on-board grid. Getting Linux and MacOS X to run on the main processor is apparently relatively easy, but getting beyond that to tapping the the enormous potential offered by the grid correspondigly difficult.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=350&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog