years ago. This is so old. But he did speed it up using the patch. It would take me 2-3 days to install then i might of had bios errors. So good job bud. You just wasted a whole week installing Vista on a PS3. I would have made the image on a PC then transferred it using a external hard drive that would have taken a day off installing.

actually what he did, was emulate windows on the ps3's linux.



linux runs natively on the cell processor, but windows doesn't, so he had to use an emulator inside linux.

i did this with windows xp which performed way better than vista. taking 7 mins to load the start menu is a joke. but you would expect that because its a ps3 which is a ppc format and its converting instructions into x86. and no i aint a hard ass i was pinting out this has been done before

Just an example of someone running linux software on linux. Pretty cool none the less though. I would have windows 98 on mine but 10 gigs aint much. I like to use ps3 linux to show off to my friends. Show them that i can run a 4d rubiks cube -- http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm -- or call them from it with ekiga. I guess its good to see that there are still people who mess around with the linux side of the console.

Why do people want to deliberately install a virus on their ps3s? let alone th people who install the virus o their laptops and desktops...



It seems I cannot understand this new masochistic trend :S

Why would i want to install Vista on my PS3 ! Linux works fine ! Why not try to make Mac OS Leopard work instead !

But I would rather have a Mac OS actually installed through the OtherOS feature.



Yeah, I know it wouldn't be supported by Apple and would have a crapload of bugs to sort out, but it'd run a whole lot faster than Vista/XP in Qemu through Linux...

It doesn't really matter how he did it, many people - linux newbies - wouldn't have known in the least.



Honestly without access to the GPU it's a fruitless effort. Access to the gpu and running a very stripped down version of XP (xplite anyone?) would be much better. However, running on windows on a power pc processor will never run on a decent level.



OSX running on power pc core - much more likely to be something of value.



Good for this chap - this may inspire others to want to talk about or even try other OSs. I wouldn't mind seeing how long it takes to boot a xplite variant.

Vista on a PS3 is like sprinkling dog turds on a ice cream cake. Who gives a *****?

leopard wont work on ppc (ps3)

actually got OSX running on a ps3. I would be interested as PS3 is PPC and OSX supports PPC's so could become a good effort and also would get a lot of people doing it. Like OSX86, people getting leopard running on a x86 pc using darwin. Good things can come of this after the emulation process is further researched (couldnt find another word) and cause we can speed up the emulation.

It's been done with XP and most versions before that like 98 and 95.



They wanted to prove they could do the same with Vista.



Though I think that since they're done with the Windows OS's they should move on to Mac OS. At least they're already PPC based.