Sony's Playstation3 (PS3) does not run Linux as its standard OS. However, the device's unique Cell BE processor has been supported in the mainline Linux kernel since late last year. A commercial PS3 Linux distribution has been available from TerraSoft since last October -- a month before the PS3 actually shipped, and a company in Germany also offers a server-oriented Linux distro for the PS3. Meanwhile, high-performance Linux application development tools for the PS3 are available from Mercury Computing and RapidMind.