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Yellow Dog absent at Gamer's Day

Posted Oct 19, 2006 at 10:48PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Linux, playstation 3 updates, Sony, Terra Soft, XMB, Yellow Dog Linux
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WoofOkay, here's the bad bit: Linux, or at least info on how it will work with the PS3, is absent at the Gamer's Day event.

Good bit? No reason for us to be disappointed about this and no reason for us not to expect Linux to be released for the PS3 on time. Why is this so? Well, Terra Soft announced earlier this week that the Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 will in fact be released for PlayStation 3 in November. This downloadable update will be able to be installed on your PS3, turning your system into a full-fledged PC system on the Linux OS.

We were hoping that details on Yellow Dog would be revealed during Gamer's Day as we're still in the dark on how it will work with the PS3. Will it take over and change everything right on boot? Is it a Network Feature? Will it be under one of the options of the XMB? Will it enable users to generate their own custom content for the PS3?

Gamer's Day could have been a great time for Sony to give us at least some teaser info about it. Oh well.

Via IGN



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# Full PC without a real desktop environment?Guest 2006-10-20 02:48
No KDE and no Gnome for the PS3.

It has enought ram for Gnome or KDE, but then you can't run anything on it :P



The most usefull for Linux is RAM and the PS3 has a "bit" too less! hrhr

Lets see if "Enlightenment 17" looks as good as Gnome or KDE and is as configurable as them.

or if it just looks like another Win95 ;)

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# Don't expectGuest 2006-10-20 02:56
too much integration betwen any Linux flavor and XMB PS3 interface. Probably you will have a way to boot Linux and when Linux get up the PS3 will be a computer running Linux uniquely, un-capable to run any PS3 game. Probably some people can make games for Linux on PS3 using the devkits, but I'll be using this powerhouse to make some insane parallel numerical computing. I'm pretty excited about this :)

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# agree^^TheDude 2006-10-20 11:00
Yes I would assume this would an Icon in the XMB where once you have installed Linux you boot up PS3 as normal choose the icon in the XMB then Linux would boot up. This has got me very excited indeed. $600 dollars sounds incredibly cheap all of a sudden. Check out Terrasofts site as there are some details about this.

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