Sony PlayStation 3 Linux Platform Support at Power Developer Posted by XanTium | 12-11-2006 13:27 EST |
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[QUOTE] Power Developer is pleased to provide the relevant Linux support patches and documentation for running Linux on the Sony PlayStation 3. The PlayStation 3 games console was released in Japan today and will go on sale in the US market on Friday, 17th November. [/QUOTE] Read More: powerdeveloper.org (incl. downloads/docs) |
Forgive my noobishness, but does this mean you can run any Linux distro you want on the PS3, not just Yellow Dog?
It sounds like you can run any distro as long as they have the PS3 'patches' applied.
QUOTE(epsilon72 @ Nov 12 2006, 08:29 PM) 
Forgive my noobishness, but does this mean you can run any Linux distro you want on the PS3, not just Yellow Dog?
yes, any distro compatible with powerpc
like:
Ubuntu
Fedora Core
SUSE/openSUSE
Gentoo
see the doc available on site for more details.
QUOTE(XanTium @ Nov 12 2006, 07:13 PM)
yes, any distro compatible with powerpc
like:
Ubuntu
Fedora Core
SUSE/openSUSE
Gentoo
see the doc available on site for more details.
wow, that is great.
When you install an alternative OS on the PS3 does it overide the stock GUI, i.e. upon bootup will the PS3 go in to the alternate OS? Or do you go in to the XMB interface and then launch the OS?
QUOTE(silentbob343 @ Nov 12 2006, 05:00 PM)
wow, that is great.
When you install an alternative OS on the PS3 does it overide the stock GUI, i.e. upon bootup will the PS3 go in to the alternate OS? Or do you go in to the XMB interface and then launch the OS?
That would be nice
I'll have to find out what distros are PowerPC compatible---I'm going to try out Suse for my PC, but that probably won't work for the PS3.
QUOTE(epsilon72 @ Nov 12 2006, 05:14 PM)
That would be nice
I'll have to find out what distros are PowerPC compatible---I'm going to try out Suse for my PC, but that probably won't work for the PS3.
I'm stupid. Did not read Xantium's post.
QUOTE(epsilon72 @ Nov 12 2006, 10:33 PM)
I'm stupid. Did not read Xantium's post.
lol was going to post that, but figured you would find out.
Oh man, Imagine a MythTV box on a PS3... schwinggggggg
QUOTE(VinnySem @ Nov 13 2006, 09:10 AM)
Oh man, Imagine a MythTV box on a PS3... schwinggggggg
yup that's what we've been thinking.
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