Play Station 3 and Linux
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 15 21:05:21 UTC 2006
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:31:24PM -0500, Randy Jonasz wrote:
> I seen this article about linux on PS3. I though I'd pass it on.
>
> >From http://videogames.yahoo.com/newsarticle?eid=446224&page=0
>
> [UPDATE] The SCE president also told the crowd that the PS3 would use
> a 60GB 2.5" hard disc drive (HDD). A slide show during the
> presentation said the HDD would will be loaded with the Linux
> operating system versus Microsoft's Windows OS. The show also said it
> could be used as a "home server" and be directly connected to the
> Internet, and be full "upgradeable."
I don't know if there is Windows on the HD of the xbox 360, if it is
just storage for whatever is in flash. Many people have certainly found
the 20G drive way to small so far. 60G is at least 3x better. :)
> Kutaragi also made it clear that the hard drive will be necessary to
> play games--Sony is telling developers to make games assuming every
> PS3 has a hard drive installed. "We view the Hard Drive to be
> mandatory for the PS3," he said. "Rather than have developers create
> games for the PS3 with or without the HDD, we will be asking them to
> develop games as though all PS3s have the HDD installed."
Oh good. Past experience has shown that anything that isn't standard on
a console won't get support from developers in general. ie: segacd,
32x, lightguns, network adapters, etc, etc. Why make a game for 20% of
users with add-on X if 100% of the users have the base console and can
buy your game.
> Alas, no info on what distribution is being used
Probably their own, based on one of the more common ones. I imagine
similar to their PS2 linux distribution.
Len Sorensen
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