Sony Announces Version 1.0 Of Linux for Playstation 2

ResearchBuzz writes: "Sony has announced the May 2002 release of Linux (for Playstation 2) Release 1.0." He quotes from the press release: "The company expects the kit to sell for about $199 USD when it is made available in May 2002 exclusively through its website, http://www.us.playstation.com."

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First freeloader post

[Anonymous Coward]

Freaking PAY for Linux? Surely you jest. I am a free software advocate: Everyone else should do the work, while I reap the reward for free.

EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND SERVE ME! I AM A FREE SOFTWARE ADVOCATE! GET OFF YOUR ASS AND WORK HARDER HA HA HAHA AHH AH AHA AHhee hee ha hee uh <burp>

Re:Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

as the proud owner of the fp in this thread, I hearby donate it to you, as your post was MUCH more worthy.

transformers

[rice_burners_suck]

This is the most amazing thing since sliced bread! YAY SONY!

Now if only Microsoft will release a 100% GPL'd Linux distro for Xbox. Just for the principle. Oh well.Let me tell you something. You cannot measure the speed of light using Ping. What do you think Ping is, quantum physics hard at work? That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard in my whole entire life. Because you know what? If you want to know the speed of light, just open a damn book. It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal. You stole phizzy lifting drink and floated up to the top of the tower which must now be washed and sterilized. And you need to remember the Boromir Principle, or whatever it's called, which says that the closer you try to measure some quantum physics stuff, the more messed up your measurements will be... or wait a minute... that's not what it says. It says that you can measure X or Y closely, but not both at the same time, and the accuracy of your measurement of X is inversely proportional to the accuracy of your measurement of Y. I just don't remember what the X and the Y were... What's that called, the Heisenberg thing? I don't know... it's been FOREVER since I've put a few good hours into reading all about physics, quantum mechanics, chemestry, superstring theory (or whatever they call it today), Calabi Chow spaces or whatever they're called, and who knows what else. :-) ...

Of course, if you can get the network to work exactly at the theoretical rate, you may actually be able to extrapolate the speed of light.However, that requires that I stop being an idiot and start writing some meaningful stuff in here. You see, what I've been doing in this stupid long and boring comment is just writing a bunch of crap to make it look at first glance as if I wrote a bunch of meaningful stuff, but really, it's just what I said it was a moment or two ago, no I think it was three moments ago, or was it four? You know what? I cannot tell because by the time I write a bunch more stuff, however many moments ago it was increased by a moment or two. Because you cannot stop the time, and that's really my point.

You see, time and the speed of light are really very closely intertwined! It works like this. Suppose that time is a dimension, kind of like our three dimensions of east/west, north/south, and up/down. So there's another dimension and it's past/future, and the present is almost nonexistant. The present is like the size of a tiny piece of an atom, if you could even measure it at all. What happens is this. Why is it that if you move an object at the speed of light, it like travels into the future or some bullshit like that? Actually, if you think about it for a while, speed is a measure of distance over time, or some garbage like that. What that really means is that, and by the way, the speed of light is the so-called alleged "cosmic speed limit" because THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS ACTUALLY THE SPEED OF TIME. Now if you go and read some books on the subject, there are really good explanations that I cannot reproduce here, for various reasons, and I will, for your convenient convenience, enumerate those items herein:

• Copyright violations. If I would include, say, a whole "commercial" book on physics and time and shit, that would probably be considered a violation of copyright law, and next thing you know, the copyright POLICE would show up at my door, and drag me kicking and screaming to the electric chair, where they would fry my happy ass.
• Because it would take too long for me to sit here like an idiot and transcribe (what a fancy word for "punch in the shit that I'm reading", eh?) the entire flipping book into this stupid freaking window, eh?
• Because Guiness sucks. That's right. That stuff tastes totally wrong. It's really weird shit. I prefer Negra Modelo. It's a Mexican beer, which means it's a correct beer. Actually, Negra Modelo is an ale. That's kind of like the difference between Madeira and Port, if you know what I mean. Guiness isn't a beer, and Guiness isn't an ale. It just isn't. It's incorrect. But Negra Modelo is correct. Some other Mexican beers aren't so good. Some are much better. But I like Negra Modelo because it is really the most awesome beer/ale/whatever the hell you want to call it in existance. Good with lime and salt, or without. Do it whatever way you want. By the way, I'm not into everything Mexican... For exampple, I hate tequila. It's gross, just like Guiness. Which brings me back to what I started saying a moment or two or three or... well, you get the point because I think I went over this whole moment and time and light thing in the previous paragraph, which is what brought me here, and if I start that whole damn thing again, this will become a recursive endless forever loop like for(;;) or some garbage like that. Actually, I like to write while (1) but many compilers are really stupid and they don't optimize out the "if" that goes in there somewhere, and they check against a gosh fucking constant, for crying out loud, and you know what? I think that sucks. But what the hell was I talking about? Oh yeah, the superb taste of Negra Modelo, and the deficiencies of Guiness, which sucks. (And I'm sure this pisses off a lot of people, like Linus, who probably wants to put a contract out on my happy ass, and RMS, who is probably committing suicide right now because if Guiness ever gets outlawed, that would probably mean the end of the GPL, or on the other hand, maybe RMS is quite happy right now, because he probably figures that beer should be open source, in other words, the brewery should release their recipes and all their trade secrets under the GPL, so that anybody could piss in the beer, or some garbage like that. Oh well.
• And the third reason... Or is it the fourth? I don't know, I've lost count. A couple of Negra Modelo's (because Guiness sucks) will do that to you. Oh well. I could write my own thing, and not plagiarize or whatever that stupid word is (and I can't even remember how to spell the damn thing) but that would take thought, time, and shit. And I don't have the patience for that kind of thing. So oh well.

So I will conclude that my conclusion is that I have discovered that there is no way in the entire universe that it would somehow be possible to use PING to measure the speed of LIGHT.

Einstein didn't use ping.

NEGRA MODELO. BECAUSE GUINESS SUCKS.

And then I had a revelation. A picture in my head. A picture of this! This is what makes time travel possible. The fluxcapacitor. As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. Now I'm going to be as forthcoming with you as I can, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual, a man who calls himself Morpheus. Whatever you think you know about this gentleman is irrelevant, he is considered by some authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My partners think I'm wasting my time with you, but I believe you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipre the slate clean, give you a fresh start, and all we're asking is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice. That sounds like a really good deal, but I think I got a better one. How 'bout I give you the finger, and you give me my phone call. Hmmm... Mr. Anderson. You disappoint me. You can't scare me with this gestapo shit. I know my rights. I want my phone call. Tell me, Mr. Anderson. What good is a phone call, if you're unable to speak? The Matrix is a system Neo. That system is our enemy. Or some bullshit like that. Oh well.

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[Alan_Thicke]

It's about time somebody started modding these "cut and paste" posts right! I hate when people do it and they get modded up. Damn karma whores

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[Anonymous Coward]

I don't need the karma. I hit the cap of 50 months ago. I just did it to make sure everyone could read the article in case their server "went to sleep".

- 'ekrout'

Karma WHORE!

[Anonymous Coward]

-1 redundent!

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[Roger Watson]

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--rwatson

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[YorkshireONE]

You must be sexually fustrated if a little thing like this causes you to fume.
You are a sad little man, you trot out phrases like "Damn karma whores". I always thought whores sold and Johns sought.

ONCE AND FOR ALL.
People post the source article so when the server is slashdotted, we can still read it.

You are the damn karma John, Alan Thicke.

FreeBSD 4.5

[Bender Unit 22]

And now even FreeBSD 4.5 is released. My local mirror was updated last night(watched the ISOs upload). Now to slashdot those ftps.