Funny, my SSD on my PC failed last night, so I was looking for something to do. I ended up messing with my PS3, and was wishing there was a way to install Linux again. Good timing!

Jolly good, sir! At last, we have access to our own hardware. I was disheartened when Sony saw fit to remove a feature that I had listed as a plus vs. other platforms, in making my purchasing decision. One that I had taken advantage of, installing Ubuntu for PS3. I hope this doesn’t inspire Sony to remove other features, like F@H and PS2 support. Perhaps their focus will be on securing their own network for long enough for us to do some good with this.

So do we now have full access to the GPU and all the cells?

gimee free stuffz..I wantz waruz..dis runz backoops??? yo you gangsta?

sorry..had to do it xD

I’d love to see somebody start a replacement version of the PSN powered by all the recent uberhacks that people could run on a LAN. Call it the Working Play Network. It’d get me to consider actually buying one.

@spiritplumber: They did by removing a method to run unsigned code they couldn’t fix it without removing Linux..

Most people didn’t even use it, it’s just software pirates crying the blues now cause they have to pay for others hard work..

linux was bought back a long time along by graf_chokolo sont thanked him by kicking his door down lol

What this would be ideal for is making mobile robots using PS3 mainboards.

On the flip side, has anyone confirmed that this works on RSoD consoles? I have one here which is otherwise unfixable, any ideas?
If not, maybe the OP can find a way to work around bad flash chips?

I did look into using multiple parallel connected xD cards but it looks like this won’t work sadly.

@xorpunk

Don’t be stupid. I don’t have one piece of unlicensed software. I like to explore, and that’s what my PS3 allowed me to do- at one time, just what it was advertised to do. I still see commercials claiming that “it only does EVERYTHING”.

@ Tony…

There was an “announcement” claiming to be from anon that states the sole purpose for the attacks was as retaliation for Sony pulling the plug on “OtherOS”.

Whether this is true or not I don’t know, but it can be found on youtube. Or could for a while.

@Masta Squidge
Because Anonymous can be trusted.

fail0verflow were working on this but I guess Sony’s injunction stopped them

I’m writing my master’s thesis for Cell … I’m running it od PS3 … am I a pirate ?:)

@FunPanda : If you really are worried I could mirror it for you temporarily.

This is awesome, I may consider getting a PS3 again…

Oh yeah, leyt sony haveatoughtime tracking those guys down

(The “you” above being generalised, of course — meaning not Hack a Day but the OtherOS folks.)

XBMC on PS3 before x360? Thatd be a PS3 Slim for me than :)

@Zeno Arrow: Geohot’s HTAB entries were impossible without unsigned code..The people who did the backup-dongle, and the ones who later did the mailbox overflow and PKI reversing all did it off his exploit by reversing update manager and fuzzing SPU mailboxing with a remote debugger.

So, I not only understand the social aspects of the events. But I’m sure you ‘experts’ have it all figured out xD

I’m sure game ISOs are all over the net with cracks because DRM prevented people from playing them too xD xD

@xorpunk: Franta above mentioned his thesis being written for Cell.

Even a single person like this is enough, with a wide margin, to justify the existence and availability of OtherOS.

Besides, in some time the then-obsolete consoles will become ending in trash. Then they can turn into free-as-a-beer, highly powerful computer cores for various fun projects.

Then there is the philosophical aspect of who should be allowed to decide what code can run on the owner’s hardware. I don’t understand the people who claim Sony should, instead of the hardware’s owner/possessor. In comparison with the seriousness of this issue, the entire problematics of “piracy” is about 20 dB below the noise floor.

@Otacon2k:

“All of a sudden your DVD-Player is updated”

PS3 dont “suddenly” get updated lol. Try harder.

Tragatela toda sony…

@xorpunk: You are either an idiot, or you are a filthy liar. Either way, you should stop leaving your excrement in the Hack-A-Day comments.

“it’s just software pirates crying the blues now cause they have to pay for others hard work.” There are several problems with this statement. Allow me to list as many as I can think of specifically.

1: Based on your logic, anything that can be used to commit a crime is useful only for committing a crime. If someone purchases a gun, they are planning on going on a shooting spree. If someone purchases a knife, they intend to stab someone to death. If someone is buying a soldering iron and screwdriver, by your logic, they intend to remove the case from an ATM, attach a credit skimmer to it, replace it, and steal credit card numbers. You have an internet connection, clearly you are conspiring cyberterrorism with a group of anonymous agents across the globe.

2: Pirates don’t protest lockdowns like this. Honest customers who purchased their products legally and are now getting locked out due to faulty DRM(Assassin’s Creed 2 for PC. Launch day, the verification servers went down, and not a single legitimate customer could play the game. Everyone who pirated it was unaffected.) protest lockdowns like this. What’s more, the Playstation-based homebrew, hacking, and tinkering communities hate piracy possibly more than Sony themselves. If you’d ever gone to look at what the people you’re dismissing wholesale actually do, you’d find that even suggesting that you might consider using a custom firmware to run pirated software is the fast track to a ban, and furthermore, each of the custom PS3 firmwares released thus far have deliberately blocked backups from running. It would be easier to release an entirely unrestricted firmware, but

3: OtherOS was keeping the Playstation 3 from getting hacked, and removing it caused hackers who had previously been happy with a somewhat-open system to target a system which was now closed. The hacking and tinkering communities touted the Playstation 3 loudly before the Slim was released, due to its ability to run a 3rd-party operating system without resorting to shady tricks like reflashing the optical drive’s firmware. It was not until it was announced that the Playstation 3 Slim would not include the OtherOS feature that anybody began looking for a way to run unauthorized code on the Playstation 3.

Of course, you’re going to claim I’m wrong on each point, and you’re going to specifically take offense at my note that you are deliberately spreading libelous misinformation with intent to harm the social image of George Hotz, as well as the hacking and tinkering community in general. Nobody likes being called a liar, after all. Especially not if it’s true.

Which in this case, it is.

First of all Id like to say DAMN STRAIGHT VOLFRAM

Sony has tried to take away the free flow of information. They have tried to stop A legal code(GeoHotz jailbreak) from being shared and tried rip it completely off the internet. Now weather or not you agree with Geo or the OTHER O.S feature is besides the point. It’s your freedoms and false advertizing that we should all be concerned about. If you let one company do this and get away with it, other company’s in the future well follow suit!
Other prick things they have done. Sony has taken away multiple features of the ps3 that you paid for!!! The original ps3′s were defective and overheated causing the yellow light of death. This was happening to a massive amount of PS3′s. Instead of a recall, they charged $150 and gave you a refurbished one that didn’t even have all the options you paid for ….EMOTION CHIP(backwards compatible), 4 USB PORTS, SD,SD MINI,CF SLOTS,TOUCH SENSITIVE BUTTONS. Later, Sony panicked due to one guy(GeoHotz), and forced the removal of the “install another O.S.” feature(which you paid for). Now the PS3 can not be used as a computer which was another feature/reason people chose the ps3 over X-BOX. I hear people say that PSN is free so we don’t have a right to be upset about it being shut down….by the way nothing is for free. Well I say to that THE PSN WAS WAS ADVERTIZED ON THE SYSTEM BOX WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT AS A FREE NETWORK and is the reason a lot of people bought it instead of X-box 360.PSN was included free with our system purchase so we should expect the same quality as the paid for XBOX Live. How dare they use it as leverage to remove the O.S. When the system breach happened they didn’t give us any info for days about our financial information being downloaded, until they felt that we should be concerned. They should have alerted us right away so we could have taken prevented measures!!!! Who are they to decide if I should be informed about my financial security. 25 year loyal customer, and I have never seen Sony run so poorly. They need to do a hire and fire in management, or when the new systems come out there will be shift in the balance for console leaders. Sony has been slipping that big Co%k in so slowly that we are loosing track of how many inches are already in. Wouldn’t be surprised if Sony starts charging for the PSN in a bit saying that It has to do with better security and online services! Thanks for reading my rant I feel better already…or maybe Sony just started using lube……

P.S I don’t know if any of you guys remember the Sony music CD scandal….. Sony got into trouble in November 2005 when it was discovered that the company used a rootkit on music CDs to limit the number of copies a person could make of the CD and to prevent making MP3 files from the music.

The rootkit was a bad idea for several reasons. It hid from the user the fact that Sony had placed this copy protection, it sent information about the CD being played to Sony, and it had a loophole that a hacker could use to hide a virus that could take over someone’s computer. There was also no easy way to uninstall it.

As far as betraying customers’ trust goes, that’s pretty high up there on the list of things that are hard to recover from.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20058433-260.html#ixzz1LeDGhBrr

people who bottom line subjects based on convenience are entertaining..

@SuperSparky

Fine. Give me the monetary value of the feature that was stripped back. Sound fair? Now, how do you place a value on that feature? Considering I own 5 games and used the PS3 primarily for learning- something that was “OK” at the time I bought it, I’d say that I need the majority of the cost back. That’s fair. To dupe this type of user out of $350 and then snatch the feature back after updates, not so much.

@SuperSparky: If corporations have these rights, then we have a similar set of rights. If they can do whatever with a thing just because they made it, in the name of protecting their profits, we can do whatever with a thing we bought, in the name of protecting our enjoyment. On the legal field, the corporations can buy (errrr… lobby for) laws, and we can buy soldering irons.

When I buy a shirt, I can mod it, add another pocket, tie-dye it, alter its functionality as I please. Same with furniture and pretty much everything else. Why should electronics be anything different?

My 60G PS3 still has my linux partition burried inside it that can’t be locate. It has been fun playing with Linux on my PS3 and always learning something new. But now I have to wait to see if there is a way to get OtherOS back by using a bootable disc or something.

@Volfram: I gave technical and economical reasoning..nice troll though kiddy

@xorpunk Take you half-assed comments off HaD, you don’t deserve to be here, you fucking snoob