Macbook pro

[Kai Staats]

Ed,

> Thanks for all the info so far. So it definitly would be possible to run
> Linux as the only OS on a macbook pro for what I can understand?. The
> reason why I am asking this kind of information is because I have a project
> in mind. You all might consider insane, but insanity is sanity, keeps us
> alive. What I want to do is the following: I want to make use of clustering
> capabilities using a macbook pro and a Playstation 3, and doing it so, to
> proof that virtualizing mac os x on linux would actually be faster than
> using a mac pro. There would be no distros issues regarding clustering?
> Macbook Pro would be running one distro than not YDL (it's powerpc and
> cell) and PS3 would be ruuning YDL. Would it work ok?. Of course I am also
> beginning to learn programming and as soon as get the hand of it, it would
> be great to programme for the PS3.

Linux on a MacBook Pro is an x86 OS. Linux on the PS3 is a Power arch OS. It 
is very challenging to run cross-arch binaries in a tightly coupled cluster. 
You may consider a grid (distributed cluster) concept, but this will 
entertain a bit of configuration.

Yes, there will be plenty of issues :(

kai