jwboyer ([info]jwboyer) wrote,
@ 2007-12-16 13:11:00
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F8 on the PS3
I have a PS3 now. I will never purchase any games for it though. No, instead I will use it for what any true geek would. Installing Fedora!

There was a last minute regression on the PS3 for the F8 installer that causes a traceback in anaconda when looking for the video driver. This is worked around by specifying "xdriver=fbdev" on the command line. After that, it booted the F8 DVD just fine, and is currently installing in text mode on my standard definition TV. (Gah, that looks like crap.)

TODO:

- Spin up a rawhide boot.iso and install that instead
- Find some way of hooking it to my monitor
- Get it close enough to actually plug in the ethernet
- More stuff I think of later


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And now?
[info]http://openid.aol.com/totobul
2007-12-17 07:23 am UTC (link)
Dear Josh,

I've a simple question for you and all the others installing fedora on ps3. Apart from the fun of installing our favorite operating system on whatever has a CPU inside, is there any real reason for doing so?

I was asking myself the same question and those are the only reasonable answers I could find:

1. Having a blue-ray player.
2. Using it to natively develop powerpc applications instead of cross compiling.

Could you be so kind to comment?

thanks and enjoy your new toy!

totobul

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Re: And now?
[info]jwboyer
2007-12-22 09:54 pm UTC (link)
People have used it as a MythTV frontend, and a few other media type applications. Aside from that, and the two you have previously mentioned, I don't really have any more uses.

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Re: And now?
[info]ginger_delirium
2007-12-26 10:48 pm UTC (link)
I use Linux on my PS3 to play my favourite old games using emulators. Considering that it's designed to be a gaming platform anyway, that seemed like the perfect use to me. I have a screen-shot here (I guess that makes me a major geek).

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Waste
(Anonymous)
2007-12-17 03:10 pm UTC (link)
Linux blows on the PS3. No properly accelerated video, small hard disk for the form factor, CPU not that fast when the code isn't optimised for it.

It's nice having a Blu-ray player, and a PPC at home, but that's more reasons for dual-booting than not using the machine to its full power.

/Bastien

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Re: Waste
[info]jwboyer
2007-12-22 09:56 pm UTC (link)
It's not a waste. In order for it to be a waste, I'd have to:

1) have paid for it. I didn't.
2) not enjoy making Fedora work on PowerPC. I do.
3) find it totally useless. I don't.

To each their own :).

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HOWTO
(Anonymous)
2008-01-03 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Is there a step-by-step HOWTO for a Linux NooB available anywhere?

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Re: HOWTO
(Anonymous)
2008-01-16 11:11 am UTC (link)
Looks like a good guide:
http://www.bohmer.net/ps3_stuff/install-fedora-8-on-PS3.html

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Re: HOWTO
[info]nucleartractor
2008-03-07 12:51 am UTC (link)
I wouldn't call that a great guide for noobs, I have installed a few flavors of linux on Intel, and when I used that guide (and the copied variations across the net) I found it hard to follow, and, the part where is instructs you to run linux rescue never happened on my system (good?) but then again, I am not so good with any other terminal system than DOS. Regardless, I have been working at it since 2:50 today, it's now 7:50 and I think it works (boots & I am upgrading w/ yum now)

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