Geohot Brings Other OS Support To PS3 With Custom Firmware

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 7, 2010 @10:34PM from the that-was-quick dept.

suraj.sun tips news that hacker Geohot is following through on his promise to fight Sony's removal of the "Install Other OS" feature on the PS3. He posted a video of the work he's done so far that shows a PS3 console booting into Linux. Quoting Engadget: "While it's not available to the public just yet, Geohot's 3.21OO custom firmware will apparently be simple to install and, as you can see in the video after the break, it works just as you'd expect and simply restores the 'other OS' option to its previous place. Geohot even says that the custom firmware might actually enable the other OS feature on the PS3 Slim, but he hasn't yet had a chance to try it out."

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Re:Somethings messed up his MAC address by Mad+Leper · 2010-04-08 00:47 · Score: 1, Troll

A "respecable" hacker that took credit for other peoples hard work for the iphone crack, and failed to do anything more than dent the outer ring of the PS3 security?
Sad indeed.