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Well this is just absurd. I bought my PS3 in a large part to support this open(ish) hardware notion amongst console makers. What a lot of good that did.
by sophacles 17y ago
Well this is just absurd. I bought my PS3 in a large part to support this open(ish) hardware notion amongst console makers. What a lot of good that did.
- nathanb 17y agoUnfortunately, 'Sony' and 'open' are rarely related... I tried YDL, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE on my PS3, and with the relatively small amount of memory, the slow disk, and the locked-down graphics subsystem I found that I couldn't really do many useful things with it. If I were involved in HPC I'm sure I could have found something, but as-is OtherOS has always been more of a gimmick than a tool in my eyes. I imagine those interested in using their PS3s for scientific computing or Linux hacking won't mind not updating the firmware, while those interested primarily in gaming or media playing won't care that they can't dual-boot anymore. It's frustrating that Sony are doing this, but I don't think that practically speaking this changes a whole lot.
- rbanffy 17y agoSo... What will you do? Buy an Xbox 360? ;-) It's not like you have a whole lot of choice... And yes, it sucks. I would like an inexpensive non-x86 desktop. A Cell-based box would be interesting, as would be a SPARC or a many-core ARM thingie. I find this x86-only world boring.
- sophacles 17y agoNah, ill just buy a media center pc and put boxee or something on it. I don't play a lot of games, in fact, one of the motivators for buying the PS3 was to see if I would be interested in more gaming on newer systems. Turns out I'm still not much of a gamer.
- wmf 17y agoI wonder if/when someone will hack the Boxee Box into a full computer; it's got decent specs and the right ports.