DevKits have a notoriously bad development environment. Granted, some things can only be done on the devkit, like access to the graphics card and the Sony grap

DevKits have a notoriously bad development environment. Granted, some things can only be done on the devkit, like access to the graphics card and the Sony graphics API, but doing compiler work or code that targets the SPUs is simply done better from Unix than with the native devkit options.