I have Ubuntu on my PS3, but I mostly use it for nothing. I thought I would use it for SNES games, but I ened up using my PSP and Wii still. But, it is still cool to know I still have a computer just in case my main one quits working.

Posted at 8:01 pm on Jan 31st, 2009 by kamanashi

But it’s still restricted Linux. Without access to 3D hardware, lame. Sony is scared people will release ‘Linux PS3′ games without having to pay their development fee and getting the expensive development kit. Still, people could do this now for 2D games.

Posted at 8:53 pm on Jan 31st, 2009 by Tatsh

good game

Posted at 9:03 pm on Jan 31st, 2009 by Adam Ziegler

thank you Eliot

Posted at 5:33 am on Feb 1st, 2009 by devturkler

i usually hate people who come on here and say ‘this hack is pointless’, but really; why spend hours hacking an expensive console so that you can play snes games *in a window* on half-crippled emulators that would have run perfectly on any piece of shit computer with TV-out?

the two cool parts of this hack would be playing in full-screen on your big TV and being able to use the PS3 joypad, and those are the two things that won’t properly work!

Posted at 6:25 am on Feb 1st, 2009 by dan

The key word is: yet! This is the first step, more will come, I’m sure.

Posted at 9:04 am on Feb 1st, 2009 by IceBrain

The psp doesnt matter since the Homebrew community has opened that up for anyone with a bit of tech skill can do. We beat sony and now soon it will be the ps3’s time to run HB.

Posted at 9:13 am on Feb 1st, 2009 by SOOPERGOOMAN187

putting linux on the ps3 is actually the least expensive way to have a cell-based node. several researchers have put together clusters of ps3’s for problems that aren’t memory intensive (each ps3 is currently limited to about 256meg in linux), but that can benefit from the cells’ vector processors for number crunching. Until relatively recently, a PS3 was about the same price (or cheaper) than a comparable nvidia card that could run CUDA — where the nvidia cards could have more memory, but the ps3’s could scale better in terms of clustering large units cheaply — for an NVIDIA cluster, you need a host machine for however many video cards you connect in SLI, increasing the cost.

i think that it’s probably cheaper these days to go the CUDA route (for computing problems that are particularly suitable to these simd architectures), but i think the new cell processor that’s coming out (probably not in the ps3’s) might change some of that?

Posted at 10:00 am on Feb 1st, 2009 by silic0re

This is the first I’ve ever seen of a proper OS for the Playstation and I like it. 256Meg with the cell processors isn’t too bad for a decent computer (although admittedly it’s not close to a new pc). I have no idea what hardware compatibility would be like though.

Posted at 4:49 pm on Jun 16th, 2009 by jagraham

I’ve been wondering if the PCSX2 would run properly on there but from what I’ve gathered, it’s got the power, but the restrictions won’t make it possible till someone cracks it

Posted at 1:05 pm on Jun 17th, 2009 by ratcore

@ratcore: Even if it was cracked to removed the hypervisor, ou still wouldn’t be able to run pcsx2 on it properly. Just to run correctly it requires at the least 2Gb of ram. The PS3 is limited to 256Mb.

Posted at 2:31 pm on Jun 17th, 2009 by kamanashi

Good post, adding it to my blog now, thanks

Posted at 2:32 pm on Aug 19th, 2009 by Free PS3 Slim

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Posted at 2:41 pm on Aug 19th, 2009 by Free PS3 Slim