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Gentoo Ported to PS2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ls-with-a-gamepad dept.

kerneljacabo writes "In what is yet another testament to the flexibility of the Gentoo platform, it has been ported to the PS2. It is still in the early stages but more information can be found here."

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  1. It was just a matter of time... by fudgefactor7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linux is portable...so porting it to a PS2 (or a sufficiently advanced toaster) is just a matter of exercising the will to do so. Not a surprise that it was done...Gentoo or otherwise, one distro or another eventually would have done it.

  2. PS2 not PS/2 by Salica · · Score: 3, Insightful


    [...] testament to the flexibility of the Gentoo platform, it has been ported to the PS/2 [...]

    Don't tell me you cannot make the difference between an old IBM PC and a game console ;-)

  3. Gentoo on PS2 != new linux distro most likely by GweeDo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This probably means that they have brought portage over to the PS2 Linux kit. The PS2 Linux kit uses a version of the 2.0.x kernel redone for the MIPS processor in the PS2. If they brought portage over (which is what Gentoo is) then you get the power of portage on the system you are already familiar with, just like what the Gentoo team is doing with Mac OS X. Gentoo on OSX != Mac OS X running some new kernel or something, just means you get the power of Portage for getting apps and depenedencies and what not.

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  4. Re:emerge finalfantasy by MenTaLguY · · Score: 3, Insightful
    And thus it is with Open Source. Fixing bugs and maintaining old code is booooring. Noone wants to do it, so noone will. Same with documentation.

    If the whole world ran on a volunteer basis, there'd be no janitors. Who'd clean up all the shit?

    Well, how about these janitors, for example?

    I find your lack of faith disturbing.

    I'm not really sure I'd call Open Source strictly volunteer, anyway. Personally speaking, about 40% or so of the OSS hacking I do is fixing bugs that I personally need fixed.

    Granted, the other 60% is probably making new bugs for other people to fix (I like to think of it as "adding features")... but somehow we still seem to come out ahead in the end. ^_-

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  5. Re:Great. by spencerogden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Typical "Open Source developers have their priorities out of whack" comment. Who says the guys who did this (the port) would consider contributing to Gnome or KDE, who says they have the skills? All of that aside, if you aren't paying these guys, then how can you assign them priorities?

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