How to turn a PS3 into a Linux PC

Post by **Ron2K** » 06 Jun 2008, 11:12

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... 63321.html

I bet you that DAE is wishing he has a PS3 instead of an XBox 360 right now...

DarkStar · Post by **DarkStar** » 06 Jun 2008, 11:39

I doubt that.

BUt still, it's pretty cool that the PS3 encourages people to do more than just game with it.

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 06 Jun 2008, 11:46

You can get Linux on your Xbox as well.

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 06 Jun 2008, 11:48

PM has been on the downward spiral into oblivion for a while now... this just serves to underline this fact...

this has been one of the most documented features of the console, and the most overblown - the OS and the cpu barely speak, the console makes it almost impossible to utilise the 3d functionality of the gpu, the space provided for partitioning is tiny in comparison to most systems... really...

aside from running IM/skype etc in the background, it serves little other purpose..

<has sneaky feeling this has already been posted around here... somewhere...>

Mow · Post by **Mow** » 06 Jun 2008, 12:03

The question is , how do you turn your pc into a ps3 !! WOULDNT THAT BE COOL. ?

Vampyre_2099 · Post by **Vampyre_2099** » 06 Jun 2008, 12:28

WiK1d wrote:You can get Linux on your Xbox as well.

Now isn't that a bit ironic, microsoft's hardware will run linux... I might be the only person to find that funny

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 06 Jun 2008, 12:31

Vampyre_2099 wrote:Now isn't that a bit ironic, microsoft's hardware will run linux

you do know that the xbox is a pc, right?...

why would a pc not run linux?

endev8003 · Post by **endev8003** » 06 Jun 2008, 12:46

Mow wrote:The question is , how do you turn your pc into a ps3 !! WOULDNT THAT BE COOL. ?

I think if you could get a OS that is streamlined for gaming, you would be able to get a lot of performance out of a pc.

Mow · Post by **Mow** » 06 Jun 2008, 12:51

The point is to get PS3 titles to run without emulation .

maestro_za · Post by **maestro_za** » 06 Jun 2008, 12:59

360 games doesn't run under emulation on PCs either.

The last console to see emulation on the PC was the PS1 ... PS2 saw little success.

I don't see the point in any case. MAME and the rest of it ... FTW!!!

A real golden age of gaming

StarPhoenix · Post by **StarPhoenix** » 06 Jun 2008, 13:00

Well.....PS3 games are compiled with PS3 hardware in mind, aren't they....so....
um.....would one not pretty much HAVE to emulate?

rustypup · Post by **rustypup** » 06 Jun 2008, 13:10

StarPhoenix wrote:PS3 games are compiled with PS3 hardware in mind

it's not so much the hardware as the processor...

the cell is not a normal cpu.. instructions are processed in parallel, making threaded tasks tricky to control at best...

theoretically extremely powerful, practically, a nightmare to code for... most of the additional oomf is being sucked into thread management....