YDL 5.0 on PS3 - *PICS*

i'm still not entirely sure of the advantages. NEVER used Linux before I'm not particularly tech savvy and would hate fucking up my PS3 just so I could surf the net and chat on it. It does look very cool though.
 
i agree, this looks fucking awesome but i'm scared on messing anythign up on teh ps3. Can you give some more info? How does it boot and load games still? Also how fast of a "computer" is it then?
 
theres really no way it could fuck up the PS3 as theres no way to format the PS3 Operating System off the disk... I guess maybe if you pulled the plug while the harddrive was formatting you could fuck it up, but thats about it....

now of course you could somehow fuck up your Linux install - but that would mean nothing more than reinstalling and starting over

heres a how-to from Sony:

http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/manual.html
 
Sony supports it - http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/manual.html


"Computer" wise its not amazingly fast or anything - but its not slow at all either.

The ability to play xvid/divx is sweet, and of course everyone will be porting all the Linux Emulators over to the PS3 soon enough (i believe SNES and Genesis are already running - not perfectly of course yet, but running)....

Theres no 3d support yet - so no linux games/wine games. Again im sure soon enough some uber linux dude will get a driver for that too...

Software/Programs? Firefox, Thunderbird, GAIM, IRC, FTP, etc etc. VNC too. All the little bullshit desktop games - solataire, minesweeper, etc. Office suite, programming suite, libraries, all that stuff too.

Personally im sure I wont use it much more than watching TVrips on my TV, but its pretty cool nonetheless... Plus who knows in the future maybe they get drivers for like camcorders, digi cams, etc plug em right into your PS3... Or maybe like USB TV Tuner - BAM - now you have a HTPC/PS3. External BluRay burner one day? who knows - but if enough of the Linux community starts rocking it - there will no doubt be a shitfuck of programs/drivers ported over
 
yea but if you ever wanted to you could just slap a USB2 drive on there for more Linux storage....

I plan on just getting mplayer up and running (xvid/divx/h264) and streaming em off my PC
 
So is yellowdog going to get backed by Sony officially or what? I got fedora working, but it was a pain to install and play with.
 
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