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PS3 Linux Now Installable

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yes-because-it's-a-supercomputer dept.

Quinton writes "Around midnight Pacific time on the 17th, Sony updated their Open Platform website needed to install PPC Linux on the PS3. The FTP Site contains the CELL Linux ADDON CD image, which has the bootloader (kboot/otheros.bld) and instructions needed to install Fedora Core 5, PPC. A full install from DVD takes about two hours. Most all hardware is supported except for graphics accelerator support (framebuffer only, up to 1920x1200)."

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  1. neato by undercanopy · · Score: 2, Funny

    does it come beowulf ready?

    nothing like a cluster of $10,000 nodes..

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  2. Yeah by eightball01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But does it run... oh wait... it does!

  3. Most except... by Odin_Tiger · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Most all hardware is supported except for graphics accelerator support (framebuffer only, up to 1920x1200)."

    So...everything but the thing that makes the machine be what it is? That's great. At least you can play nethack...

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  4. Jeez by TodMinuit · · Score: 1, Funny

    First a reduce number of launch titles and now this. Sony really knows how to suck the fun out of a console.

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  5. But by Kuku_monroe · · Score: 0, Funny

    Does it run hurd?

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  6. PS3... Linux... Sony... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    PlayStation 3....

    Linux... Good!
    Sony... Bad!

    but but... which is greater...?
    *head explodes*