Comments on The Julipedia: Blog: Mad at the Cell SDK

I agree. The CELL is an amazing technical achievem...

2008-12-20T17:22:00.000+01:00

I agree. The CELL is an amazing technical achievement, but installing the tools is a nightmare.

Why was some extra effort not put into the the installation process?

I am beginning to think that the assumption is that "programming the CELL is really hard, so if you cannot deal with a difficult install you are just not going to be smart enough to program the chip"

The Firestorm GPU has finally been released (about 2 years late), is 3 times the cost of a PS3, but may be more successful simply because it seems to be supported by a more "rational" set of tools.

Has "user-friendly" become a bad term? I simply want to program the CELL, not struggle with software installation.

Initially I attempted to install under Fedora, but Fedora 'dies' if I try to enable my second monitor. A few people tried to help, but to no avail. So, I switched to Ubuntu - supports my dual monitor system with no problems.

Cannot get ALL of the CELL tools installed under Ubuntu (only some of them), so switched back to Fedora --- now on Fedora-10. I can get the main SDK package installed, but the "extras" package is proving more difficult.

Hey, bit late but I've got a fairly detailed guide...

2008-01-02T14:42:00.000+01:00

Hey, bit late but I've got a fairly detailed guide to how to install these packages perfectly on Debian/Ubuntu on my blog at:
http://mikearthur.co.uk/?p=167

Hope this is of some use!

Thanks for the post. I'm new to Cell and Fedora (...

2007-12-20T20:21:00.000+01:00

Thanks for the post. I'm new to Cell and Fedora (I'm a long-time Debian / Ubuntu user), so I thought I was doing something dumb to get those /tmp/ errors when I did updates.

Of course, my Gnome desktop is now broken too, but I imagine that's not the SDK's fault; just a coincidence.

Great post! I went thru the same problems last wee...

2007-11-19T01:16:00.000+01:00

Great post! I went thru the same problems last week, and I gave up.

Which script? If you are talking about cellsdk, t...

2007-11-18T23:47:00.000+01:00

Which script? If you are talking about cellsdk, the installer, it does not use wget any more to fetch the RPM packages as it did in the SDK 2.x. It now relies on yum to do the fetch.

I had to hack the download script so it make "wget...

2007-11-18T23:35:00.000+01:00

I had to hack the download script so it make "wget -c --timeout=5" instead of just wget.
It's strange thet the only site with this stuff is no reliable && don't have mirros :'(