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afroman10496
September 21st, 2009, 03:09 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzZRFcMKml4

cool, huh?
chris4585
September 21st, 2009, 11:47 AM
If you say so, I wasted my time doing this and its not really worth it besides the novelty in it. The PS3 Slims wont have this same ability, which is a shame.

http://psubuntu.com/
howlingmadhowie
September 21st, 2009, 11:52 AM
it's useful because the PS3 is actually a pretty quick computer for certain parallel tasks. the company behind yellow dog linux actually cells clusters of PS3s with linux and lots of mathematical libraries pre-installed. with the PS3 slim not supporting this functionality anymore, it's uncertain what will happen now.
chris4585
September 21st, 2009, 12:17 PM
it's useful because the PS3 is actually a pretty quick computer for certain parallel tasks.

Good point.

Brink - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhStjorHgLM
grturner
September 21st, 2009, 02:00 PM
the PS3 would be more viable to run linux on if the GPU's weren't locked. Sure it runs fine as just a desktop environment, but if you do anything multimedia or graphics intesive, it bogs down really quickly. The default hard drive capacity isn't anything to get excited about.

I'm not wasting my time with it because it doesn't suite my needs.
pwnst*r
September 21st, 2009, 02:25 PM
If you say so, I wasted my time doing this and its not really worth it besides the novelty in it. The PS3 Slims wont have this same ability, which is a shame.

http://psubuntu.com/

so it's a waste of time yet you're disappointed the slim doesn't have this ability? lol?
chris4585
September 21st, 2009, 07:52 PM
so it's a waste of time yet you're disappointed the slim doesn't have this ability? lol?

Umm, maybe others like to do that sort of thing? I like the fact that the older PS3's had the ability so others could experiment on it, why would I want the ability off? It makes no sense, just because I don't find it useful to install Ubuntu on a PS3 doesn't mean someone else would?

I said it was a waste of my time, not other's time, they have the choice to waste their time however they like. I see having the choice more important (In my case), then actually installing Ubuntu on it. If that makes any sense.
LowSky
September 21st, 2009, 07:55 PM
The PS3 has too little RAM to be used as a Linux desktop, and its PPC based which limits what can be done software wise. And yes the stock PS3 HD is on the small side, but easily upgradable.
pwnst*r
September 21st, 2009, 11:47 PM
If that makes any sense.

sort of.
blueshiftoverwatch
September 23rd, 2009, 04:27 AM
For the average home user Linux on the PS3 is nothing more than a novelty. And if you don't have a TV that runs at at least 780 scan lines the resolution is utra crappy.
Dimitriid
September 23rd, 2009, 04:36 AM
I mostly agree with most of the comments: consider that you can easily build a small form factor rig running on atom that will probably perform about as good or even better than the PS3 because of the extra ram.

Videogame consoles really have tiny ammounts of ram ( something I do not really understand since ram is so cheap nowadays anyway ) and this is basically a constrict factor for any normal pc usage unless you try something like building Arch to use LXDE and be as resource light as possible.