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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. Support for PS/2 by clem · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's great news. Now I no longer have to use my serial mouse with Gentoo.

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    1. Re:Support for PS/2 by proj_2501 · · Score: 5, Funny

      The kind you eat with milk.

  2. Great. by reverendslappy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if only they could port it to 95% of the desktop market share.

    *grin*

  3. NetBSD by grub · · Score: 5, Interesting


    NetBSD runs on the PS2 and has for some time. Too bad it's dying. ;)

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  4. Re:It was just a matter of time... by Sexy+Commando · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Don't know how to say it... Yes Linux is flexible, but not in the sense of porting a distro to another platform, becasue if a distro is ported, it's not the same distro anymore. Redhat can just build a dstro from scratch on PS2 and still call it Redhat Linux.

    Gentoo is a "meta-distro," which can be put on top of many UNIX-like systems. The Gentoo Linux we often hear can be percieved as the "reference distro" of the Gentoo meta-distro system.

    Heck, there's even Gentoo for cygwin and OSX

  5. Not a good idea... by eniu!uine · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have nothing against gentoo, but it really sucks as a game. It has no plot whatsoever. I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to do with it?!?

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  6. Re:PS2 Porting is a great idea by Yaztromo · · Score: 5, Interesting
    You already own a PS2 as "Joe Homeguy". You could go out and buy a new computer, but the guy at the store says "Well, just buy this Hard Drive upgrade for $200 for your PS2, and stick in this CD with Linux on it, and off you go".

    Linux for the PS2 also extends the useful lifetime of the console hardware.

    I own the PS2 Linux kit. Admittedly, I don't boot up into it terribly often (I have two other Linux boxes here to work on as well), but it's all installed and setup.

    However, as we all know, consoles eventually hit an "end-of-life" after 4 or 5 years, when Sony releases their next console and everyone starts developing for it instead. How many old PS1's are there out there sitting in closets and garages because the gamer of the house now owns a PS2 and no longer needs it?

    Linux extends this useful lifetime. When the PS3 does come out, I don't have to relegate my PS2 to the closet. It's already running Linux. I can simply put it into a closet and let it run a mail server, a file server, a media server (having the digital optical audio out on it makes it a lovely Ogg Vorbis/MP3 jukebox), or any one of a number of other useful tasks.

    Yaz.