Comments on: Playstation 3 Linux Installation

By:

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:50:22 +0000

YES YOU ARE GO TO CIRCUIT CITY AND DROP 1500 on a Panasonic Plasma HD 1080. You don’t know what you are missing. The games look INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!

By:

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:56:00 +0000

People who dont understand the processing capabilities of the Cell, are simply underestimating the impact this little device can have on computational computing.

Linux isnt on the PS3 because a few gamers thought it would be ‘cool’. Its on the PS3 because it give an consumer level access to a device that would otherwise cost tens of thousands to develop on.

Thus also expanding the knowledge and base of competent developers for the Cell. Its actually a neat thing to do, because it gives even average people access to develop software on a consumer console? Without modding, what other console has done this since the Amiga?

Additionally as many people keep propogating (whom quite obviously havent got a PS3, nor understand the drivers on the YDL or FC distrub) the gfx framebuffer driver is actually completely able to use the full processing capabilities of the RSX. Yes, thats right, with a little bit of hacking you can get and render amazing 3D scene.. name another $500 device you can do that on.. with 200 Gflop CPU and a top of the line GPU (7900 GTX equivalent essentially). hrm?

Doesnt sound like such a bad thing after all does it..

By:

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:04:52 +0000

Putting Linux on my PS-3 was the coolest thing I ever did. I rock. I was so excited after the install, I just couldn’t wait to play a game of ‘smack the penguin’. So I grabbed by controllers, you know, those really innovative motion sensing one’s that look like nun-chucks? I started swinging my arms around and running around the room shouting ‘WHEE!!!! WHEE!!!!’. I was so excited and happy to be able to ……

…oh wait.

By:

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:49:50 +0000

“one of the lucky few who bought one this past Friday”

You mean one of those stupid enough to buy an overpriced console with no interesting titles at launch?

By: hikaricore

hikaricore — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:49:03 +0000

Why in the world would you put fedora on that poor ps3? There are so many better distros.

By: Noneus

Noneus — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:05:16 +0000

I guess it would be possible to use it as an htpc? (Home Theatre PC) Would be great. I’ll buy one anyway. Cheap bluray player and I can play my old PS2 games.

By: NZheretic

NZheretic — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:30:35 +0000

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/apps.shtml

[i]Cell SDK v1.1 An open source Software Development Kit for the Cell Broadband Engine (CPU), granting code developers the tools required to build applications optimized for the unique qualities of the multi-core Cell processor.[/i]
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cellsw?open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-jw22cellsw

Already there are people hacking on this …
http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-PS3.html

For gamers?

Imagine an open source 3D engine ( either new or ports of the existing open source ones ) that makes use of the CELL processor to calculate the physics of the environment, and maybe render the result onto the PS3 output ( for DVI output
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22HDMI+to+DVI%22+cable ) or just convert it into a digital video stream ( mpeg/diac etc ) and network it back to your PC.

By: GBGames

GBGames — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:34:41 +0000

Maybe I’m just ignorant, but as I understand it, you won’t be able to take advantage of all of the power the PS3 holds due to missing drivers. That said, what happens after you install a Linux distro on it? I know you can run emulators and play games, but someone can do that with a cheap PC running MythTV, too.

Now don’t get me wrong. I am not the kind to complain that “they put Linux on everything” because I think it is really cool that you can do it. I just want to know what a person can do once it is there. If I want to run a desktop, I think I’ll prefer a hi-res monitor to my television. I’m not the only one who hasn’t bought an HDTV, right? B-)