Is installing Linux on the PS3 worth it? The bottom line: The PS3 makes for a reasonably good desktop when not performing tasks that require a lot of memory, such as ...

Yellow Dog is the oldest distribution exclusively for PowerPC-type systems. Originally this would have meant things like Apple Macs - but since Macs now run Intel processors, the people running Yellow ...

Less than a year after the release of the PS3 Slim, Sony says that a firmware update for older models of the PlayStation 3 will kill its Other OS option. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

StreamMyGame.com announced today the release of its free Linux Player, an application that enables you to play any PC game via a PlayStation 3 running Linux. The free StreamMyGame Server enables PC ...

Hello,<BR><BR>[ First of all, I'm not sure this post fits this forum completely... I'm quite sure it's on-topic, but maybe I'd have better chances trying in another one? ]<BR><BR>I'm planning to buy a ...

I just posted this in the gaming forum, but here may be a better place for it so I'm just copy/pasting...<BR><BR>So what is the state of Linux on PS3?<BR><BR>I don't have a PS3 yet and well will get ...

As promised three weeks back, and in the latest of a series of hands-on reports on Sony's PlayStation 3, I wanted to give you a brief update after my Linux-cognizant friend Denis fired up the console ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. On April 1, Sony removed one of the PlayStation 3's original features, the option to install an alternate operating system such as Linux, with its ...

As previously mentioned, courtesy of Rambus I've been testing a Sony PlayStation 3 (mine is a 60 GByte model) on and off over the past week. A near-future post will share my hands-on thoughts on this ...

In what will surely be a blow to Linux fans the world over, Sony is dropping support for the open operating system on its PlayStation 3. The move will take effect Thursday with the release of a ...

This is the only one of the three distributions with no separate PS3 install disc (as opposed to the other two which have distinct PowerPC and PS3 CDs). The PS3's Cell CPU is actually a PowerPC chip, ...