PlayStation 2 SIF BIOS: 0250 use boot information at 0x81fff000(old style) boot option string at 0x81fff100: root=/dev/hda1 crtmode=ntsc crtmode=NTSC Loading R5900 MMU routines. CPU revision is: 00002e20 Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 64 bytes Primary data cache 8kb, linesize 64 bytes
Branch Prediction : on
Double Issue : on Linux version 2.2.26-xr1
Calibrating delay loop... 392.39 BogoMIPS Estimated CPU clock: 294.337 MHz Memory: 30468k/32760k available (1544k kernel code, 680k data) Dentry hash table entries: 4096 (order 3, 32k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) Page cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k) Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 32768 bhash 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM Starting kswapd v 1.5 PlayStation 2 device support: GIF, VIF, GS, VU, IPU, SPR Graphics Synthesizer revision: 00005515 Console: switching to colour PlayStation 2 Graphics Synthesizer 80x28 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured RAM disk driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 10240K size loop: registered device at major 7 PlayStation 2 IDE DMA driver hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0xb4000040-0xb4000047,0xb400005c on irq 41 hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, 38146MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=4863/255/63, (U)DMA
As I've seen it said, the Cell is simply an extension of ideas in computing architecture introduced in the PS2. instead of the R5900's VU's the Cell has the SPE's.
With a LInux kit the PS2 actually becomes something akin to an all in one box. E-mail, IM, web browsing, even spreadsheets. The PS3 is probably just an extension of this idea, the PS2 serving as a test platform.
The newest XFCE is pretty nice looking about equivalent to KDE2 from what I've seen.
It is possible to install an older KDE on older hardware, the sources are still around. I've got KDE1 on this Playstation 2 Linux kit. It's possible to install KDE2 as well, though it's slower.
and FCDE (I think that's what it's called... people say it's made a lot of progress lately but I don't really know much about it) as window managers installed by default; I installed WindowMaker myself because I like WindowMaker. I also like fluxbox for a quick window manager.
Yes it does. Say one out of ten games is a true classic, a system with 5 times the games of another will have 5 times the true classics too.
Zelda? Metroid? Thought so.
More games, all genres. The PS2 may not have Zelda but it does have Zelda-like games and far more FPS than the GC does. You don't have Dark Cloud, you don't have Half Life or Timesplitters. You don't have MMORPGS, (two of them, that support easy to find USB keyboards) You don't have online Diablo clones WITH voice chat.
It's easy to pull out the "PS2 has no Zelda or Metroid" since those are the only games that sell Gamecubes. Really, outside of Metroid and Zelda (and perhaps Animal Crossing) the GC really isnt worth owning. It simply doesn't have enough games, which is kind of sad. I want to like the Gamecube, but their output has dropped dramatcially. In the old days they'd have never farmed out their own franchises (like Metroid or Zelda), they would have done them all by themselves. But tthey can't seem to do that anymore.
Actually friend, if you want gameplay, the PS2 is the way to go. The PS2 simply has more games, all genre's all age levels, all types. You name it, the PS2 has it. It's the no-brainer first choice.
When will that stupid fanboy argument die? The GC is the console with the LEAST great games, no matter at what percentage you put the cutoff line. The PS2 has roughly 5 times as many great games, the XBox only 1.5-2 times as many. Try looking at Gamerankings or Metacritic or whatever you like and count how many games a system has above a certain average rating, you'll see the PS2 vastly outstrip the competition.
The Gamecube fans forget that about 5 times as many PS2 games are released per month than GC games, even in slow months.
And even if the GC fans claim that "all Nintendo games are perfect triple A+ quality" was true, the PS2 would have more good games. And it DOES! Good games in every genre. More good games than any but the most hardcore gamers would have time to play.
What's funny in this generation of games, is that a non Nintendo system (the PS2) has more (and better) charcter based "platform" games.
No, they did that by putting the yabasic disk in with the UK PS2's, since that's where the problematic legal stuff was. Need I remind you that the Linux kit was Japan only for quite a while before it's US and UK/EU release.
It's kind of funny that the Sony PSP is probably more Linux friendly than than Sony's regular mp3 devices.
Have you ever tried to visit Connect http://www.connect.com/ with FireFox? Yep, it's IE only though you can spoof the UserAgent. Maybe Linux users should keep complaining to Sony. You never know it might work.
Here's another thing, I've got 2 Playstation 2's, one with the Linux kit and the other with the FFXI HD in it.
Now with the Linux kit, I can transfer music, photos, video clips over to the PSP no problems. But I cant use Connect.. The Linux kit is a niche product for certain so there's probably not going to be any SonicStage for Linux on the PS2.
But that FFXI HD PS2 has a lot of empty space on that HD, about 26 GB I think. There were rumors of some kind of media playing/CD ripping software for HD equipped PS2's from Sony but nothing came of it. It seems sort of a no brainer, people aren't going to be running iTunes, WMP, Napster, or Musicmatch on their PS2's. Captive audience for content and with the PSP, Sony could have created a synergistic relationship between PSP, PS2 and Connect similar to what Apple has done with IPod and ITunes.
It's likely too late for something like this to happen with the PS2, but the PS3 on the other hand.
The PSP isn't an iPod killer, but then again it's a much better music player than the iPod is a game machine. I'd been thinking about getting an mp3 player and this feature in the PSP sealed the deal for me. One device that does, games, music, movies and who knows what else for $249. Steal!
I've only got a 256MB card in mine though. The PSP is increasing sales of Memory Stick Duo media, that's for certain.
I wouldn't consider the Linux kit a flop since it sold out in NTSC U/C territory and people keep begging SCEfoo to release more kits or sell just the discs. As for the kernel, the most recent kernel that I know runs on the kit is a 2.4.17. I just stick with 2.2.26 xRhino.
Later on in the Linux kit's life they dropped the price to $99, a steal, and then they sold out.:-)
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Lo and behold the Playstation 2 with USB ports and FPS's that support them.
if you've got a PS2 Linux kit Pygame WILL compile.
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PlayStation 2 SIF BIOS: 0250
use boot information at 0x81fff000(old style)
boot option string at 0x81fff100: root=/dev/hda1 crtmode=ntsc crtmode=NTSC
Loading R5900 MMU routines.
CPU revision is: 00002e20
Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 64 bytes
Primary data cache 8kb, linesize 64 bytes
Branch Prediction : on
Double Issue : on
Linux version 2.2.26-xr1
Calibrating delay loop... 392.39 BogoMIPS
Estimated CPU clock: 294.337 MHz
Memory: 30468k/32760k available (1544k kernel code, 680k data)
Dentry hash table entries: 4096 (order 3, 32k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
Page cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 32768 bhash 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Starting kswapd v 1.5
PlayStation 2 device support: GIF, VIF, GS, VU, IPU, SPR
Graphics Synthesizer revision: 00005515
Console: switching to colour PlayStation 2 Graphics Synthesizer 80x28
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
RAM disk driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 10240K size
loop: registered device at major 7
PlayStation 2 IDE DMA driver
hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xb4000040-0xb4000047,0xb400005c on irq 41
hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, 38146MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=4863/255/63, (U)DMA
Looks like a computer to me.
It IS a computer entertainment system, or at least one of mine is. I've got a Linux kit.
The PS3 is just an extension of ideas introduced with the PS2.
As I've seen it said, the Cell is simply an extension of ideas in computing architecture introduced in the PS2. instead of the R5900's VU's the Cell has the SPE's.
With a LInux kit the PS2 actually becomes something akin to an all in one box. E-mail, IM, web browsing, even spreadsheets. The PS3 is probably just an extension of this idea, the PS2 serving as a test platform.
The newest XFCE is pretty nice looking about equivalent to KDE2 from what I've seen.
It is possible to install an older KDE on older hardware, the sources are still around. I've got KDE1 on this Playstation 2 Linux kit. It's possible to install KDE2 as well, though it's slower.
What web browser are you running on that NeXT? I've got a 294 MHz R5900 with 32MB here, so I use dillo http://www.dillo.org/ quite a bit.
I think youre thinking of XFCE http://www.xfce.org/
I've got a Playstation 2 Linux kit and I've been using fluxbox on it for quite a while now.
Yes it does. Say one out of ten games is a true classic, a system with 5 times the games of another will have 5 times the true classics too.
More games, all genres. The PS2 may not have Zelda but it does have Zelda-like games and far more FPS than the GC does. You don't have Dark Cloud, you don't have Half Life or Timesplitters. You don't have MMORPGS, (two of them, that support easy to find USB keyboards) You don't have online Diablo clones WITH voice chat.
It's easy to pull out the "PS2 has no Zelda or Metroid" since those are the only games that sell Gamecubes. Really, outside of Metroid and Zelda (and perhaps Animal Crossing) the GC really isnt worth owning. It simply doesn't have enough games, which is kind of sad. I want to like the Gamecube, but their output has dropped dramatcially. In the old days they'd have never farmed out their own franchises (like Metroid or Zelda), they would have done them all by themselves. But tthey can't seem to do that anymore.
I e-mailed Sony last month to suggest they get their game licensees to put their game soundtracks on their Connect music site for download to the PSP.
I'm now going to e-mail Square-Enix to suggest they put their stuff on other music services besides iTunes.
Actually friend, if you want gameplay, the PS2 is the way to go. The PS2 simply has more games, all genre's all age levels, all types. You name it, the PS2 has it. It's the no-brainer first choice.
The Gamecube fans forget that about 5 times as many PS2 games are released per month than GC games, even in slow months.
And even if the GC fans claim that "all Nintendo games are perfect triple A+ quality" was true, the PS2 would have more good games. And it DOES! Good games in every genre. More good games than any but the most hardcore gamers would have time to play.
What's funny in this generation of games, is that a non Nintendo system (the PS2) has more (and better) charcter based "platform" games.
Games, web browsing and e-mail are what the majority of people want to do on their computers.
No, they did that by putting the yabasic disk in with the UK PS2's, since that's where the problematic legal stuff was. Need I remind you that the Linux kit was Japan only for quite a while before it's US and UK/EU release.
You can even mount your PSP on a PS2 with the Linux kit installed (and the xRhino kernel)
It's kind of funny that the Sony PSP is probably more Linux friendly than than Sony's regular mp3 devices.
Have you ever tried to visit Connect http://www.connect.com/ with FireFox? Yep, it's IE only though you can spoof the UserAgent. Maybe Linux users should keep complaining to Sony. You never know it might work.
Here's another thing, I've got 2 Playstation 2's, one with the Linux kit and the other with the FFXI HD in it.
Now with the Linux kit, I can transfer music, photos, video clips over to the PSP no problems. But I cant use Connect.. The Linux kit is a niche product for certain so there's probably not going to be any SonicStage for Linux on the PS2.
But that FFXI HD PS2 has a lot of empty space on that HD, about 26 GB I think. There were rumors of some kind of media playing/CD ripping software for HD equipped PS2's from Sony but nothing came of it. It seems sort of a no brainer, people aren't going to be running iTunes, WMP, Napster, or Musicmatch on their PS2's. Captive audience for content and with the PSP, Sony could have created a synergistic relationship between PSP, PS2 and Connect similar to what Apple has done with IPod and ITunes.
It's likely too late for something like this to happen with the PS2, but the PS3 on the other hand.
Works in Linux too, first thing I did when I got mine home was hook it up to my Playstation 2 Linux kit and mount it up.
I just have to respond with these South Park Quotes.
The PSP was built by God! Hail the Holy PSP!
Funny thing is, you CAN drag and drop mp3's into the Sony PSP. Yeah, in some ways the PSP is a better mp3 device than Sony's dedicate mp3 players.
I was surprised about the lack of an HDD too. Perhaps they were worried about how much more of a hit to the battery life that would cause.
Oh Well perhaps a "PSP2" will have one.
The PSP isn't an iPod killer, but then again it's a much better music player than the iPod is a game machine. I'd been thinking about getting an mp3 player and this feature in the PSP sealed the deal for me. One device that does, games, music, movies and who knows what else for $249. Steal!
I've only got a 256MB card in mine though. The PSP is increasing sales of Memory Stick Duo media, that's for certain.
Untold Legends is the best selling game? Maybe more people were playing Diablo on their screen equipped PSones (with battery packs) than I thought.
The PSP is a success, perhaps not huge success but one nonetheless.
Hail the Holy PSP!
I wouldn't consider the Linux kit a flop since it sold out in NTSC U/C territory and people keep begging SCEfoo to release more kits or sell just the discs.
:-)
As for the kernel, the most recent kernel that I know runs on the kit is a 2.4.17. I just stick with 2.2.26 xRhino.
Later on in the Linux kit's life they dropped the price to $99, a steal, and then they sold out.
Just keep pestering the Admins at http://playstation2-linux.com and maybe, just maybe they'll do another run of the discs.