This project(which really does not impact us mainstream users too directly) is but one more example of ibm's commendable support of & allowing porting of competing linux to their latest technologies-- rather than limiting access to their own os'es only.
In particular the project which has the most direct & largest potential for us is the porting of Linux to the cell processor-- if this chip can somehow gather enough industry acknowledgment to make the jump from nextgen game console to the desktop, look out-- it is so many generations more advanced than the current top of the desktop 64bit crowd it's scary.
And this is where Apple has misstepped again(blinded & confused by both drm & sudden sales spike of a gadget that can overnight fall out of favor)-- instead of dropping ibm, it should've stuck w/ them & made the leap to this processor.
To those of you who may be wondering why the rant & big deal re this cell processor: are you debating whether to buy one type of processor because it's dual core, or its single core but multi-thread competitor? How would you instead like a combo multi-thread and multi-core(8 for now just in its first iteration!)
The problem is no one's making/planning to make desktops with this processor, so there needs to be a general outcry & demand for it, so that we're(mainstream users, not just a market niche) not stuck years & decades with inferior technology-- such as rudimentary pc's instead of workstation power(x86 platform instead of risc for more than a decade), & for several decades before that typewriters when pc's could've been available to us instead...

Folks: we as consumers need to demand & support the very latest developments, even tough it may not seem at the moment like we need or could put these inventions to good use--otherwise we may never get them. Quite often the company that invents something does not have the will, vision, or requisite skills to get a useful product to the masses-- witness how IBM & partners did not get the pc to us until decades later, and the risc processor never!
Sun has the technology to grid copious amounts of processors & ram together, while eliminating the need for a bus altogether-- but are WE going to ever get that???
WE NEED to support companies with innovative developments AND demand to get their products: ibm, sun-- whoever makes terabyte flash drives & holographic dvd's...otherwise we'll get stuck with comparatively low-capacity & slow computers, hard drives, compact discs....

MASSES: rise up & revolt-- refuse to be spoon-fed so much pablum & un-forthright marketing drivel!!!

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