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Developing On the PS3 Under Fedora
An anonymous reader writes to point out the first in a series of articles from a while back about using the Playstation 3 as a development environment under Fedora. Here are the second and third parts of the series. Quoting:
"Early on, it was a bit of a challenge to get Linux natively installed on the PS3. Time has passed, and a great deal has changed. Fedora 7 installs on the PS3 out of the box, with the most challenging installation steps eliminated. This article introduces the basic configuration knobs and widgets specific to the PS3 running Linux, shows you how to use them effectively, and suggests the kind of trickery that gets improved performance."
Not in this case, Sony ensure you can do it. It is not hard to put linux on the PS3, any PPC based distro will work. So what's the point? It makes a lousy machine with no hardware access. Unless you want to play with the cell, linux on the PS3 is a joke and there's no geek cred for merely installing a PPC distro. I did it 18 months ago, there is still no hardware access or talk of it coming, that means awful video performance, and useless as a media center. It can't even beat the original xbox with XBMC!
The video was directed at average/novice end-users, not developers. And Quake 3 (1999), Starcraft (1998), and Counter-Strike (Based on Half-Life, released in 1998) are FAR from "high-end video games". In fact they'd be considered extremely low-end standards that a general computer user would expect to run on nearly any machine released recently.
The fact that you couldn't figure out that you were not the target of this video shows a certain lack of ability to relate or empathize with other people, further exemplified by your combative attitude.