Fri 5 Jan 2007
IBM has released a guide for the installation of Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3. The process is as easy as burning a DVD and using a thumb drive to boot the installer. The OS has access to all functions of the Cell Broadband Engine, but specialized functionality like high end video acceleration are locked out. There is some difficulty with the video display. If you have a 60gb version with HDMI and a HDCP compatible display, then you are set. Otherwise, you may have to hack a video cable and run at sub-800×600 resolution. (I know that isn’t a PS3 in the picture, but I haven’t seen one of these in a while.)
( ydl50_ps3_guide.pdf )
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January 9th, 2007 at 3:39 am
First, your blog is actually pretty cool and really really well written. I’m impressed.
Anyway, that said… I’d assume that IBM’s process is irreversible? I mean can you actually make the PS3 play games after you’ve put Yellow Dog Linux on the thing? Or have you created yet another piece of consumer electronics that you can run as a webserver?
January 9th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Thanks Sean, Firefox gets the credit for fixing most of the spelling. As for the Linux question, you can still play video games on the PS3 after putting Linux on it. The 10GB that you use for Linux will obviously be unavailable for other storage, but beyond that, it will still be the same PS3 you had before putting Linux on it.