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.

 

[Advil Lavs]

The reason is that it's funny and is a conversation starter for tech-interested people.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

I'm tired of the midwit responses of: "It's old and underpowered!" There is PLENTY of that type of talk across Reddit, et al.
Take your insecure negativity somewhere else..

I'm looking for actual creative ideas, from people who actually know how to work with limited resources..
I want to actually LEARN a thing or two from people with an engineering mindset, not to read more Reddit-tier midwittery..

 

[PhaseJump]

I'm tired of the midwit responses of: "It's old and underpowered!" There is PLENTY of that type of talk across Reddit, et al.
Take your insecure negativity somewhere else..

I'm looking for actual creative ideas, from people who actually know how to work with limited resources..
I want to actually LEARN a thing or two from people with an engineering mindset, not to read more Reddit-tier midwittery..

If you can figure out what to call that thing you look through to see the outside of your house, and then figure out what the big bright yellow ball in the sky is, mentally grasp their names, you can then potentially figure out the two computer operating systems that this particular midwit's engineering mindset was on payroll to support.

Tired? Go take a nap.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

You are adding NOTHING to the discussion: GO AWAY

 

[MajesticSiN]

I used it once or twice back in the day.
It's okay.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

I used it once or twice back in the day.
It's okay.

What distro did you use, and what for?

 

[MajesticSiN]

What distro did you use, and what for?

I forget, it was the one that came with the set.
Yellow dog linux maybe?
I just did random stuff with it. I use linux on my computers so I didn't mess around too much with it on ps3.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

Yeah, 'Yellow Dog' seems to be the one that was made for the PS3, but there appeared to be people that to believe that maybe something else worked better. I know how to jump between Windows & Mac rather easily, but I'm a total newb to the world of Linux and the myriad of different distros.. Not to mention how newer distros may very well not work on a PS3 at all..