PS3 Miscellany
January 29th, 2007 by CrusaderThere’s been a few developments on the PlayStation 3 front:
- IBM has posted An introduction to Linux on the PLAYSTATION 3, which covers the installation of Yellow Dog Linux on the Sony game console, and initial programming steps.
- A reader pointed out this announcement for a PS3 Linux development environment from RapidMind intended for Terra Soft’s YDL.net Enhanced customers.
- There’s some notes on getting pygame, a set Python-based modules for game development, running on the PS3 at Buffi’s blog: YDL; Fedora
- A Debian PS3 Live CD has been released by Yaegashi Takeshi. It also contains the installer if you wish to install the distro on the PS3’s HDD.
- Finally, the Gentoo distribution has added support for the PS3. There’s installation notes and available and also some discussion about it at Brent Baude’s blog.
January 31st, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I’ll care about the PS3 when they fully support it in linux. Looking at the IBM docs, IBM doesn’t expect them to support GL in linux. Ouch.
February 1st, 2007 at 5:14 am
yup, ouch
having accelerated graphics in linux + gta4 would be a reason for me to buy it, but not if i only get one of them – got my wii already and i am happy with it
February 1st, 2007 at 5:58 am
Until there’s some real access to graphics hardware instead of a dodgy framebuffer, PS3 Linux will remain utterly pointless. Want to play 3D games? Forget it. Video playback? Nope. 2D games? Not animated ones. In fact, Linux on the PS3 is a complete waste of time & energy unless you want a life of playing card games and using OOo