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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (1293)	3/12/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: Rar	Respond to of 2617

>Linux in Playstation2< Keep in mind that the release so far only states that the development environment for PS2 will be available on Linux. This means a cross-compiler will be available which takes the source created on a Linux system to the binary format for the PS2. Linux right now isn't the greatest when it comes to real-time performance. The graphics system in PS2 is completely different than that used in X so it isn't just a basic port of Linux to PS2 hardware. The PS2 isn't the same as an SGI system either so they have to rewrite the graphics system and port the kernel which is a significant amount of work. What it does mean is that it will be cheaper for PS2 game developers to buy computers to do development work.