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all but GaiaManager can be found here:
http://gitorious.org/ps3free

there's also a story:
http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2011/01/29/dmcaed-ps3-git-repositories-cloned/

but the site is a bit... busy right now.

Late last year TeaM-ACiD1C released a proof-of-concept custom firmware. Though admittedly this may be the first useful custom firmware.

According to PS3-Hacks, only the menu items for trophies, save data, etc were missing, and the hacker has apparently already released an update fixing this bug. http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2011/01/04/ps3-custom-firmware-creator-released-permanently-add-install-pkgs-to-the-xmb/

Yes

http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2010/10/19/asbestos-running-linux-as-gameos/

Yes.

http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2010/09/08/open-source-ps3-tool-chain-released/

So, what was that about PS3 homebrew always being illegal because it uses Sony's leaked SDK? Or are you saying that because some of it does, especially right now because there's not a *mature* tool chain yet, that any future homebrew created without using Sony's SDK will somehow also be using Sony's SDK even though it isn't?

Just noticed that 3.42 has been released. Nothing posted on the official PS3 website...I wonder what it's going to do? Keep an eye out here. Figures...I did one update since I'll be able to use Linux now and Sony has to come and spoil my fun.

Hah, thanks for the heads up! Googled him, and there's some brilliant entertainment there :D

Quote - a random comment from him:

Comment by HighGuy
2009-10-16 15:27:27
hey guys a update it seems console is visibule but I don't know the ps3 core commands or adresses ....hahaha fuck well ya anyways I will let ya in on this much cod 4 ufo .......fuck lots of code ....and I hate reading ..........not saying how I get console or nuthin.g but I do crash my ps3 and hard lol so far it seems to boot my code and still leaves me in the ps3 iitself (xml) but the game ps its not cod4 crashes and drops me into my shell ......I got basic basic damb basic commands aka dir and that's about it ......im thinking of poring dos into this next but thers the issue I've bricked my outher ps3 and my wife wants to kill me..and I don't wana brick my 60 so I lost the best working copy need to go back and rewright what I lost and ya so stay high but I have had luck ps no game name is the same and some details may be alterd for the sake of us hackers

Either a very good troll (judging by the other comments), or he's a poser :)

More entertainment at http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2009/10/15/homebrewed-ps3-system-file-editor-v0-80-released/

1. The reason games cost the same on the PS3 and 360 is pricefixing, pure and simple. If I wanted to release a full retail game on either system (assuming I had a studio and a license to develop for the systems) I would be forced into selling it for $60. It's only after the game had been out for a while and sales declined that the retailers would start lowering the price.
2. The PS3 does have hacks available, even if it doesn't have true piracy yet (Example. Warning: mildly NSFW ads.) I suspect a large part of the reason there's no true piracy yet is because of the Blu-Ray format. A single BD-R costs $12.85 on Amazon, and I can't imagine that it's easy to create/load a ROM of a game stored in that format.