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Re: [News] [Linux] PS3 Linux Gets a Boost with Improved Linux Distribution

__/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Tuesday 29 May 2007 22:56 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Free simplified Linux distro for PS3
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Want to do more with your Playstation 3? HELIOS Software and Terra
>> | Soft Solutions have made available for free download a modified
>> | version of the Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) distribution.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1545
>> 
> 
> --snip--
> 
> This is excellent news, but I was hoping for more. We need access to the
> PS3 hypervisor... We need to be able to run graphics to their full
> potential and be able to fully utilize the SPE's on the Cell chip...
> 
> Till that's available, I won't be buying a PS3 anytime soon. It's alot like
> buying a state of the art computer and only be able to access half the
> hardware... No fun, no joy, no bucks from me.

I agree. There's also a petition (see below). PS3 sales are not going well
for Sony, so maybe they'll decide to focus on other selling point more than
they do at present. Rarely (if ever) do they present the PS3 as a capable
PC. They bet on making money out of games (firmware).

Linux petitioners want Sony to open up PS3's graphical innards 

,----[ Quote ]
| Access is blocked by the Hypervisor chip so there is no chance of
| getting around it without Sony's approval. And, naturally, Sony
| doesn't want geeks producing 3D games under Linux and undermining
| its investment. It flogs the console in order to make mountains of
| wonga on the highly-priced games folk play on it.
| 
| [...]
| 
| So now there's a a petition online asking Sony to open up the RSX.
| It's here.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39112


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