Playstation 3 Slim – no more Linux?
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The Internet has been abuzz about the new, Slim edition of the popular Playstation 3 lately. What especially grabbed my attention was that Sony decided to remove the option to install 3rd party operating systems, which means, no clean Yellow Dog or Debian Linux installs. The aim is, apparently, to “standardise” the OS on the PS3 platform. I suspect this means Yellow Dog are going to lose a financial backer soon and people who want to use the Playstation 3 and its powerful Cell processor (even though it is a restricted virtual environment) as a basic computer are out of luck this time. Bad move, Sony. Oh well, let’s just hope they don’t screw it up with their awesome motion-sensing controller.
I think the facts is people installed windows wich is far more dangerous for your hardware.
People might have complain about broken hardware when they installed a thirth party OS.
I didn’t even know option of custom OS on PS3 existed. Shame they removed it though.
Yes..but now you have Facebook and i heard also Mozilla browser will be added so…something is taken but something is added
informative post. I hope you keep on writing such interesting articles