I think this will go farther than being just a toy. As the article mentions, it should be very easy to port Linux applications to the PS2. As for the problem of not being able to burn the programs to a CD, I would assume that if you ripped some of the boot code off the DVD you could burn that on a CD and using the network card, you could transfer the files to your notebook or desktop and burn them from there and I think the PS2 would read them. I am glad that some company has finally gotten the guts to release a full open source operating system for their game console. I hope that other companies follow in Sony's footsteps, although, I doubt Micro$oft will...
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even though nVidia is dominating the market, i dont belive that they could purchase AMD...
I think this will go farther than being just a toy. As the article mentions, it should be very easy to port Linux applications to the PS2. As for the problem of not being able to burn the programs to a CD, I would assume that if you ripped some of the boot code off the DVD you could burn that on a CD and using the network card, you could transfer the files to your notebook or desktop and burn them from there and I think the PS2 would read them. I am glad that some company has finally gotten the guts to release a full open source operating system for their game console. I hope that other companies follow in Sony's footsteps, although, I doubt Micro$oft will...