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[News] PS3 Sales Spike Seen, Units Used as a Linux-based Supercomputer Replacement

  • Subject: [News] PS3 Sales Spike Seen, Units Used as a Linux-based Supercomputer Replacement
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:40:47 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s

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| The interest in the PS3 really was for two main reasons," explains Khanna, an 
| assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth who 
| specializes in computational astrophysics. "One of those is that Sony did 
| this remarkable thing of making the PS3 an open platform, so you can in fact 
| run Linux on it and it doesn't control what you do."    
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer

40GB PlayStation 3 spurs UK sales spike 

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| The recent PAL region release of the 40GB PS3 seems to be paying off for Sony
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14898/1093/


Related:

PS3 + Linux + Firefox = Office 2.0 computing

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| Sony and a technology site are using a conference to show off a confluence of 
| next-generation, monopoly-bypassing technology: a Sony Playstation 3 
| videogame console running Linux and Firefox as a foundation for 
| Web-based "Office 2.0" applications.   
| 
| IT|Redux, a site run by blogger and tech adviser Ismael Ghalimi, is showing 
| off the system at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. IT|Redux is the 
| show organizer.   
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http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9772115-1.html


PlayStation 3 beating Xbox 360 in Europe

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| Sony's much-maligned PlayStation 3 has defied the odds and has now outsold 
| Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Europe for the fourth week in a row. 
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http://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertainment/gaming/games-consoles/news/playstation-3-beating-xbox-360-in-europe?articleid=263086201


PS3 available pre-installed with Linux

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| TerraSoft is now taking direct pre-orders with no delivery
| time guarantees for a Sony PS3 pre-installed with Linux,
| priced at $650.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7863481537.html


Ubuntu Linux and Symfony on a PlayStation 3

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| Running linux on a playstation 3 is not a hack, it doesn’t require any 
| hardware modification, won’t disable any feature on your Playstation 3 and is  
| not difficult to do. 
| 
| Sony officially support running linux on your ps3 with dedicated tools 
| present in the XMB ( Cross-mediabar, the UI of the Playstation 3). 
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http://demenzia.net/2007/08/21/linux-and-symfony-on-a-ps3/

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