PS3 Other OS??

[Metroid_Hybrid]

Is there literally any USEFUL reason for installing Linux, or any Other OS (pun intended) on a jailbroken PS3 in [[current year]]? Seriously...

And, if so, which build and why?

 

[PhaseJump]

The idea of using any desktop environment under a hypervisor on a two decades old game console needs to take usefulness out of the equation from the start.

 

[Zerpina]

Anymore, i wouldn't think so past maybe Homebrew development...

And even that... eh, kind of a moot point to make PS3 stuff anymore, I would think.
Maybe make it a decent media center player? Though a cheap Chromebox can be a better media player than a PS3 at this point if you run Linux on it.

 

[PhaseJump]

A Pi kit is more powerful, useful, and practical for a lot of the things one might want to do.

I never looked at fucking around with the PS3 hardware in ages. I don't recall how shitty or slow the NIC hardware is in the PS3, but I am going to assume it's probably bad. I wouldn't want to rig it to be a file server or anything.

 

[skramz]

to show off on internet forums of course, duh!

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

I've thought about at the bare-minimum a simple word processor, or perhaps a hex editor for learning how to do that sort of thing to old ROMs.

What did people use it for in the past? I'm not looking for anything fancy (PJ...). I'm just into squeezing the absolute maximum usefulness out of the hardware itself..

 

[Zerpina]

I've thought about at the bare-minimum a simple word processor, or perhaps a hex editor for learning how to do that sort of thing to old ROMs.

What did people use it for in the past? I'm not looking for anything fancy (PJ...). I'm just into squeezing the absolute maximum usefulness out of the hardware itself..

As I recall it was not really good for anything. At the time in the EU, if you classified a game console as a PC that could be user programmable and such, the company would get a tax break from what I remember reading some time ago. So by definition, it was a PC, kind of like Sony did with the PS2 and the Yabasic Linux kit.

 

[PhaseJump]

I've thought about at the bare-minimum a simple word processor, or perhaps a hex editor for learning how to do that sort of thing to old ROMs.

What did people use it for in the past? I'm not looking for anything fancy (PJ...). I'm just into squeezing the absolute maximum usefulness out of the hardware itself..

The US air force built a cluster of them into a supercomputer back in the day, but an individual console even at the time was a dog shit experience compared to an actual PC running BSD or a lite Linux distro.

It was slow and crippled to begin with before Sony outright killed support for it. Even with full access to the hardware, it's likely there's nobody working on it for the sake of homebrew game development or to make it run an OS any better.

I have no idea how outdated it is at running modern distros, modern builds of the kernel, updated desktop environments. I doubt web browsing is any good, video streaming sites are probably broken.


If you are looking to be productive at all, you should just use a PC and save yourself the headache.

 

[nobitakun]

It would be comparable to use a 20 years old big PC for playing emulators. Just nonsense and a waste of electricity.