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The statements you have made are doubtful for 2 reasons:
1. You do not know for sure.
2. You never bothered research the least of the issue even with material avaliable on the IBM website.

Given these, you should probably stop trying to pass your opinion as fact. In the meantime, entertain yourself with this document:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cell/

Most will take the material on IBM's website as fact, over your opinion or assumption. From the referenced article one can draw the conclusion that IBM added support for the Cell processor in Linux back in mid-2005, and that the source-code is only now making its way into the official kernel source tree.

Taking into account that Cell is based on the PPC architecture which has been supported in Linux for years, there is no reason why there would be a delay of supporting all that Cell has to offer. Even if it uses an instruction-set significantly different from PPC, there is still no reason for IBM to delay the work.

Either way, it is nice to see Linux support yet another processor architecture.
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Pure BS.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/21/06
Are you so sure about your statement?............  Can you hear me | 03/21/06
A very nice burn on someone with no ax to grind  GoPower | 03/21/06
If it halfway runs in an emulation...  Tony Agudo | 03/21/06
The "port" for Windows WAS already done.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Bullcrap?  tty0 | 03/21/06
Yes indeed, read it!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Ummm... Afraid you are a moron.  nucrash | 03/21/06
Your mother is a moron??? Whatever...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Extend and Embrace?  nucrash | 03/22/06
Yup, and toads may learn to fly.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
How are you so sure?  thunderdome1 | 03/22/06
Better yet No_Ax, where in the article does it say what you claim?  Zogg | 03/22/06
Unlike you, I read more than ZDNet...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
But you don't seem to have understood it.  Zogg | 03/22/06
No, it does NOT support SPUs.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Use the Source, Luke!  Zogg | 03/22/06
I have to back up a tiny fraction.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Because you asked so nicely...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Uhhhh yeah!  NonmaskableInt | 03/22/06
You are right, it's poor emulation..  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Give it time  thunderdome1 | 03/23/06
You are not qualified to make that statement!  B.O.F.H. | 03/22/06
Windows on Cell  ITTech001 | 03/21/06
With Cell, can one actually get . . .  Plain Logic | 03/21/06
Yes and No...  nucrash | 03/21/06
RE: Yes and No...  richdave | 03/22/06
Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn't...  Zogg | 03/22/06
Been done...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
NO NO NO NO!!!!!!  nucrash | 03/22/06
Sorry, you need to read some facts.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Cell != xbox360  cellmokney | 03/28/06
Calm down, No_Ax . . .  Plain Logic | 03/21/06
What a clown, Windows was done long before Linux  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Sure.. and MS also had the first 64 bit OS  nucrash | 03/22/06
Your silly ranting doesn't change anything.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
And yet you said...  Tony Agudo | 03/22/06
PS - Don't forget...  Tony Agudo | 03/22/06
Yes, I think the port was crap.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
It's all about the applications, people.  ab@... | 03/21/06
It is plain to see most the posters here  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Clueless?  ITTech001 | 03/22/06
Yes, you have taken way to many drugs...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
RE: Yes, you have taken way to many drugs...  richdave | 03/22/06
PULEASE enlighten yourself  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
OK.. So which remark is inaccurate?  ITTech001 | 03/22/06
None of those fit at all...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Sounds Like Another Itanic in the Making  jjworleyeoe | 03/22/06
How this isn't Itanic  nucrash | 03/22/06
Wow, all the back and forth bashing  Boot_Agnostic | 03/22/06
Nothing wrong with that happy [nt]  Omch'Ar | 03/22/06
Since IBM developers THEMSELVES contribute to kernel code ...  George Mitchell | 03/22/06
In a way that is true...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Supporting doesn't mean making use of...  D-cat | 03/22/06

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