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

[illriginal]

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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

[kryogenix]

Run some benchmarks on it, and I'll run the same benchmark on my laptop and we'll compare. PS3 has some SPEs disabled for non PS3 games.

[illriginal]

Run some benchmarks on it, and I'll run the same benchmark on my laptop and we'll compare. PS3 has some SPEs disabled for non PS3 games.

Yeah the SPE/SPU's are locked =\

People are trying to crack/hack it so that they can use at least 2 processors for memory speed while the other 6 processors are used for processing power.

I found out what's up with SONY. It seems that they want the consumer to use the GameOs to develop home brewed games (which is ok... but GameOs won't unleash it's pure power) instead of letting open source software to home brew games. Their 2.10 firmware upgrade stopped devs from creating home brewed games and porting games from any system into the PS3 GameOs.

As for running benchmarks.. I wish I could, but I can't... no one can unless someone finally got access and isn't tellin anyone.

But I will update this thread on the next mods I do whether it's within PS3 GameOs, Linux, or hardware.

The only thing I'm working on right now, is compiling MythTV to be 100% compatible with PS3's GameOs. I need a media server that'll let me watch TV and listen to radio stations through PS3's GameOs o.o;