[ydl-gen] PS3 and YDL for education

[Owen Stampflee]

> We are planning on using Linux on a PS3 to teach kids to program. We
> have tried various things in the past including Linux on a PS2. I am
> looking forward to installing on our PS3 and seeing what we can do.
Sounds alot more fun that what most of us started programming with...

> I hope I can get squeak (current smalltalk that has education support)
> up and am planning on teaching some OpenGL on the PS3. I will be sad
> if we can not get at the cool stuff on the CELL and other hardware but
> am hopeful that the situation will be short lived.
Smalltalk would be possible, but I've never tried it. OpenGL is going to
be in software mode, so it'll be slow. We are including the
Barcelona/IBM Cell SDK and libraries, but I highly doubt that someone
without many years of programming skills will be able to wrap their head
around it, it still makes my head spin.