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Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for PS3 Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the some-people-seem-to-care dept.

News for nerds writes "Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 is slated for release mid-November with support for the Sony PS3 first, and support for the former Apple PowerPC product line to follow. Any updates required to support the Apple PowerPC systems following the release for PS3 will be made available via a free download."

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  1. PSP Homebrew by WilyCoder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Given Sony's behavior regarding the PSP and using homebrew on it, I am highly skeptical of this PS3 linux project. How can we be sure that Sony will not resort to forcing firmware upgrades on new games? Some of the latest firmware upgrades for PSP do absolutely nothing but thrwat homebrew attempts. Sony has suddenly done a 180 on homebrew? And for its flagship product?

    Lest we not forget how crippled the PS2 linux project was (the $700 one)....

    1. Re:PSP Homebrew by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Insightful
      In terms of game development on the hardware, I don't think there were any real restrictions, you just couldn't attach your camcorder or play DVD's.

      Actual PS2 games do both. These are both real restrictions. Saying that there's no "real restrictions" when you can't have raw drive access and can't use the i.Link interface is just being a Sony apologist.

      I believe that was for piracy concerns - you also couldn't get quality (non-composite) video output when playing a DVD normally on the PS2.

      There are those who would say that the PS2 doesn't have quality DVD video output, but it's not because you can only get composite out while playing one. My PS2 is connected only through S-Video and I occasionally use it as a DVD player (although my Xbox does that more often.) You have just disqualified yourself from further participation in this comment. Too bad you're a coward - I guess now we know why.

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  2. Cell servers? by otacon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering IBM is making cell processor blade servers, this release further allows end-users to opprotunity to use that same hardware for production and testing purposes, and at what should be fraction of the price.

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  3. Re:The PS3 Details From What We Know So Far by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You've listed all the positives of the hardware, but there are some very big questions remaining:

    1) Will Sony allow non-Sony code to run on the console? They don't on the PSP. Why would that policy be different for the PS3?

    2) If they want to continue PPC Linux development, and want to use a console, why aren't they using the Xbox 360 which shares almost all of the features above, except has CPUs that are much closer to the CPUs inside Apple computers, and has been out for a full year already?

    I think what they should do is either dissolve into another distro project (the fewer distros, the better, IMO), or port YellowDog to Intel and specialize in having a distro for Apple hardware.

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  4. Funny, but... by hummassa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    my two kids + the fact that I'm a user of Linux for the former 13 years ==> linux is not a really effective form of birth control.
    Now, living in mom's basement and not bathing regularly everyday would be.

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  5. Re:The PS3 Details From What We Know So Far by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Um, that was from May. Sony was saying a lot of things back then in hopes that it would drum up some excitement only. It Sony hasn't even delivered final hardware or software to the DEVELOPMENT community yet, even though the box is supposed to ship next month. This won't leave any time for beta testing the games. What a disaster.

  6. Re:seems sketchy by BecomingLumberg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or more directly, why not add the PS3 support into the kernel so that all distros can use it?

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  7. Re:PS3 as a GP computer? by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Over priced? not likely. It's the same price as an xbox360 + HDDVD Unit.

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  8. Re:seems sketchy by the_greywolf · · Score: 2, Insightful
    - using a WM that's not even out of CVS
    Their core market is servers so this is totally irrelevant. I suppose they just wanted something flashy for the expos. (you don't get more flashy then a WM that can bring a 2Gb dual core gaming rig to its knees running xterm!)

    Have you used it lately, or are you just being facetious?

    E17 uses less than 20MB memory for the entire desktop environment and all the skin flash and bling-bling. (Comare to Gnome, which uses over 100MB alone or KDE which baloons quickly over 200MB!) All E17 needs now is GL compositing and it can replace Compiz as well.

    All that and E17 is pretty and neat and fun to use and pretty! Oooh... shiny!

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