Installed Linux On My PS3 Last Night..., Take a look :D Options

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Finally got the chance to install linux onto my PS3... it's running so much faster than my computer. Supposedly 2 of the processors are running in linux.

Anyways, I just wanted to show off a good 6 hours of work put into my PS3 so far. Tommorow I need to setup my Media Server so I can watch movies and listen to music or upload images from my PC strictly into the PS3 OS.

On linux, so far I have no problem listening to mp3s, watching blueray, dvd format, surfin the net, downloading files, chatting on IRC and GAIM. The only real problem I'm having is Flash. It only plays version 7 flash, which sucks because websites like youtube have certain flash options that can't be accessed, like the pause/play button and rewind/fast forward.

Best of all, my linux recognized my Samsung blue tooth ear piece and my Motorola ear piece (that ones for my phone) so I can speak in chatting programs that allow voice chat. Also recognized my wireless printer, mouse, keyboard, and PSP. The next update on my PS3 will be adding a 300GB internal hard drive and an additional 1TB external hard drive specifically for music and movies that will be ported.


The biggest project right now for linux on PS3 is compiling a better flash player, supporting 5.1 Dolby Digital instead of DTS 5.1. And finally hacking the PS3's video card in order to make new changes in the settings so us Linux users can fnally install Beryl/Compiz and get full advantage of the processing power of the PS3 w/Linux.

Anyways, enjoy :P

Reason for edit: Good for you about Linux, but please thumb in the future. - Cristy

[*Steven*]

Jealousy? I think not. I've a friend who had a PS3, and not only was it easily outperformed by pc's (which is a given, tbh), it was outperformed np by the xbox 360. Not to mention the severe lacking of games for it.

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Jealousy? I think not. I've a friend who had a PS3, and not only was it easily outperformed by pc's (which is a given, tbh), it was outperformed np by the xbox 360. Not to mention the severe lacking of games for it.

Erm... specification have proved otherwise (Typical home PC vs PS3). You should do some reading.


And the PS3 is still a baby... lol XBOX has been out many years prior to the release of the PS3. XBOX has already hit it's prime long ago and is slowly descending. You can thank Peter Moore for that one... the guy that left Microsoft in shame of it's performance and lack of reliability. =\

De Pinga broo. Thats hot nasty. Ive never used linux but the thought of a machine better than a PC; fasinates me!

Yes I forgot to mention that making the PS3 more powerful will take some hacking.

PS3 with its limitations (no one in the consumer world knows why SONY put limitations on their consoles) is more powerful than the PC... but in terms of processing power. If we can get SONY to give us a firmware in which releases the lock on the hardware specs, we could in fact prove that PS3 is by far faster and more powerful than home PCs. If it wasn't for SONY... these processor companies would have never thought of creating the Cell processor.