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If I can resurrect my PS3 and run *nix natively on it with graphics and full blown access to the co-processors I'd buy a second one for gaming. The main proble

by alecco 16y ago

If I can resurrect my PS3 and run *nix natively on it with graphics and full blown access to the co-processors I'd buy a second one for gaming. The main problem is the memory limitations of 256MB+256MB but with careful configuration it can be just OK. I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up making the PS3 ubiquitous leaving all the other consoles behind. Even in spite of the poor higher management coming from old media (the ones pissing off traditional developers, forcing Blu-Ray and that insane rootkit.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stringer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stringer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...

glhaynes 16y ago
What makes you think it would make the PS3 ubiquitous? What evidence is there that more than a tiny set of people want to run non-built-in services on their PS3s? What would they do with them? I'm a geek and I certainly don't need another box running 24/7...
- alecco 16y ago
  Different paragraph, different concept. A cracked and affordable PS3 with HD (Blu-ray) media player and trivially changeable HDD can be very attractive. And running a *nix home server on it could be a definite plus for many people, anyway.
jberryman 16y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, Sony loses money on every PS3 you buy and use as a Linux box.
- burgerbrain 16y ago
  Clearly Microsoft and Nintendo should start buying up all the PS3's they can find, and dumping them in the ocean. If it's really as simple as "purchased console without purchased games == bad for business", then that'd be a killer business strategy.
  - jberryman 16y ago
    i didn`t say it was that simple. but no one had mentioned this factor and i thought it worth pointing out that sony might have done the calculation and determined it`s not in their interest to be subsidizing linux computing clusters.

by alecco 16y ago

glhaynes 16y ago

What makes you think it would make the PS3 ubiquitous? What evidence is there that more than a tiny set of people want to run non-built-in services on their PS3s? What would they do with them? I'm a geek and I certainly don't need another box running 24/7...

alecco 16y ago
Different paragraph, different concept. A cracked and affordable PS3 with HD (Blu-ray) media player and trivially changeable HDD can be very attractive. And running a *nix home server on it could be a definite plus for many people, anyway.

jberryman 16y ago

Unless I'm mistaken, Sony loses money on every PS3 you buy and use as a Linux box.

burgerbrain 16y ago
Clearly Microsoft and Nintendo should start buying up all the PS3's they can find, and dumping them in the ocean. If it's really as simple as "purchased console without purchased games == bad for business", then that'd be a killer business strategy.
- jberryman 16y ago
  i didn`t say it was that simple. but no one had mentioned this factor and i thought it worth pointing out that sony might have done the calculation and determined it`s not in their interest to be subsidizing linux computing clusters.