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Sony's R&D- Linux and PS3

Yousef writes "GameSpy has an interesting article about a presentation given by Sony's head of R&D for Entertainment. It appears that there are some very interesting things in store for the PS3, plus a complete Red Hat Linux installation for the PS2 and many other toys too. An interesting read."

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  1. Tuxracer by CanadaDave · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So what this boils down to is that we will be able to play Tuxracer on the PS2. Yawn. Or we can play Nethack, if you don't mind being the laughing stock of all your PS2 playing friends.

  2. Looking at SONY with neuro linguistic programming by ducker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sony is working with IBM to apply Big Blue's research in "grid computing"
    SONY is saying "WE can see you have lost faith in SONY making the best console system, so we will talk to IBM .. the inventor of the PC. And then they will help us make something even faster than an PC. We have lots of money and we know ppl."

    research efforts for the PlayStation 3 are focusing on distributed computing

    SONY is saying "Its impossible to make something faster than the playstation 2, however if we have lots of ppl sticking to the SONY brand we might make something good. Please buy SONY else there wont be enough systems to play games."

    "Moore's Law is too slow for us,"
    SONY is saying "The reason our ps2 is so slow is because of physical limits of nature.. it dosent matter about what cpu things run they all go about the same speed because of Moore's Law."

    "We can't wait 20 years" to achieve a 1,000-fold increase in PlayStation performance, he said.

    SONY is saying "We know u can see the xbox and gamecube have better graphics and are faster systems but one day we might have something much faster than they are now."

    Okamoto added that the recently released kit that allows PlayStation 2 users to run Linux software on the console is the foundation for much of the research.
    SONY is saying "Linx is cool and we know it, we would like you to think PS2 is some type of open source system that u can reprogram. We are cool like linux, dont buy an xbox its from microsoft. We would like to reinfoce any beliefs u have that linux can do things other operating systems cant.IF you like Linux you better buy SONY"

    Maybe the PlayStation 6 or 7 will be based on biotechnology
    SONY is saying "We dont know if the ps3 will beat the competitors but trust us sometime we will do something better, we are at the leading edge of technology because we have heard of "biotechnology"."