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Yellow Dog Linux5.0 on PS3 Anonymous
it's another two weeks until it is freely available, how ever binaries were leaked and a torrent was started. any of you that are interested in getting this for your ps3 can get the torrent here

http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/hashtorrent/3566989.torrent/YDL_5.0_PS3_-_Yellow_Dog_Linux_v5.0_for
_the_PLAYSTATION_3.3566989.TPB.torrent
>> Anonymous
if asking this means i should lurk more then so be it, but:

why would you want linux for your ps3?
>> Anonymous
>>137173
So you can play all of the gam...

uhm... run all of the awesome applic...

Fuck...

I have no fucking idea. Needs more WindowsPS3
>> Anonymous
>>137173
So you can be the coolest nerd on the block. School bullies will think of it as a priviledge to give you wedgies.
>> Anonymous
>>137173
So that you can run games of SFC, N64, saturn, mame, ps1, ps2 ..... via emulator
>> Anonymous
>>137216
sci-fi
>> Anonymous !WxH.Sperms
There's going to be some serious tripcode pwning if I get to port the 4brute tripcode cracker to the PS3..
>> Anonymous
Tell us when we can run Windows Vista on PS3
>> limestallc
So you can run a real operating system on a linux box with that HUGE 256MB of ram.
>> Anonymous
still testing it, hacked linux runs w95 via wine :P pretty funny tho'

bye pals
>> Anonymous
Geeky.....PS3 bugs make getting it until march stupid as hell
>> Anonymous
got that runnin today, snes emulators run perfectly... and i can post on 4chan.. still need to work on it
>> Anonymous
>>137177
>>137173
>>137195
>>137218
>>137225


Same retarded person
>> Anonymous
>>137170
i love this stuff! a winrar is the guy who made the kernel boot correcty on a ps3.
>> Anonymous
i know a guy who is running his ps3 as a webserver for no reason whatsoever.
>> Arieta
>>137216
pretty sure you cant run saturn or ps2 emus on linux. not sure about n64.
>> Anonymous
>>137502

scsi as cheap solution XD
>> Anonymous
>>137216
lol
>> Anonymous
does this mean that PS3s everywhere will finally have something worth running?
>> Anonymous
Seriously, is everything supported under Yellow Dog? Like wireless and the sound? Does the ps2 emotion engine/graphics synthesizer chip show up under the hardware devices?
>> Anonymous
u all miss the main purpose of linux: it is used for making iso images of blue ray discs. Others installs websrv... bah, useless for the moment.
>> Anonymous
PS3 virtualizes hardware for the OSes on top of it, so you won't get any hardware acceleration for graphics, just plain framebuffer. Supports resolutions up to 1920x1200.

You can't run 3D games, but everything else should work I guess, although Openoffice would run slower with just 256MB ram. Will mplayer work fine I wonder?
>> Anonymous
Yeah, mplayer and mythtv are the big questions, I'm sure they run fine now, but I'll wager some Cell specific code shows up in those apps pretty quickly. Forget about files that need a win32 codec though, like newer wmvs. And it won't run windows in wine without a cpu emulator, you'll be lucky to get 486 performance... don't bother.

And though Yellow Dog Linux gets bonus points for running e17 out of the box, it fails for being a Redhat-based distro, which are a royal pain to deal with. Really, just about any distro with a PPC port will work with a little tweaking, I'm looking forward to debian. If I could afford one of those damn things. And the hdtv to go with it.

And if they stay true to rumor and have full 3d acceleration eventually, I'm buying one anyway.
>> Anonymous
Er... this is just stupid. The PS3 has very little RAM, a crippled (things like branch prediction removed) 3.2 GHz PPC, and you can't use the SPEs to attack the floating point for massive damage. You could buy a much more powerful linux machine for a fraction of the price. I guess this is just one of those things you do to tell people you did it.
>> Anonymous
Uh, where did you read you can't access the SPE's? The official docs not only say you can, but Yellow Dog Linux comes with the fucking SPE toolkit for doing it yourself, and the latest GCC is starting to include code to automatically use the SPE's.

Using the SPE (or SPU, whatever you want to call it, the fucking Cell Tentacles is what they should be called) is most of the point in even having linux on the stupid thing. It's really so normal CS people can get used to programming for it, in addition to the Euro tax dodge. Read the official docs, the only thing locked out is the nvidia RSX chip. Oh, and you can't use the controllers in bluetooth mode yet, but they work fine when plugged in.

Here's the link to the SPE tools : http://felter.org/wesley/files/ps3/linux-20061110-docs/ApplicationProgrammingEnvironment.html
>> Anonymous
Oops, sorry, meant to tone last post down since the one I was replying to wasn't as bad when I re-read it... oh well. Anyway, official docs and other stuff: http://www.powerdeveloper.org/playstation.php
>> Anonymous
>>137550
You don't get any accelerated graphics currently, but I bet that's because nVidia are cunts and that drivers will get sorted before long. Going by the PS2 Linux kit Sony will only stop you from running pirated games, leaving the rest of the system open.
>> Anonymous
>>137635
You can play WMV3/VC-1 (aka WMV-9) in mplayer 1.0 rc1 or any other software (xine-lib) using recent ffmpeg code, which got free and portable VC-1 implementation (GSoC projetc, IIRC) recently.

256 MB RAM is a pity, though.
>> Anonymous
Oh, by the way... you can compile Gentoo on PS3 for some time already. You'll be the biggest fanboy of them all. ;)
>> Anonymous
>>137686

Okay, yeah, as the author of 137678 I was a little harsh. You can get to the SPEs, you're just not going to by default. This could be cool for custom apps if you can't afford a GF8800 and I can see some real specialty stuff being done. Mostly though I still think this is something you just do to do it.
>> Anonymous
I just like the idea of making the PS3 run emulations of other videogame console processors.
>> Anonymous
>>137218
>>137521

sfc http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/
n64 http://mupen64.emulation64.com/
saturn http://yabause.sourceforge.net/
mame http://www.mame.net/
ps1 http://www.epsxe.com/
ps2 http://www.pcsx2.net/
>> Anonymous
lol cell tentacles
I might actually get around to messing around with linux since Im too lazy to actually install it on PC.
>> Anonymous
Cell = 3.2GHz PPC with some crap(SPE)
>> Anonymous
>>138367

And bits of a normal CPU that make it faster removed to free up more die space.
>> Anonymous
how can i install mplayer on yellowdog i'm having compilation problems, can someone help?