Sony advertised Linux support on the older PS3 (the new slim model removed this feature). But even then there was no access to the GPU (Sony was afraid people w

Sony advertised Linux support on the older PS3 (the new slim model removed this feature). But even then there was no access to the GPU (Sony was afraid people would make homebrew games). This made is impossible to get even things like video playback working acceptably. With the hypervisor out of the picture, a real, uncrippled Linux system is possible on the PS3.