This is the only one of the three distributions with no separate PS3 install disc (as opposed to the other two which have distinct PowerPC and PS3 CDs). The PS3's Cell CPU is actually a PowerPC chip, ...

Is installing Linux on the PS3 worth it? The bottom line: The PS3 makes for a reasonably good desktop when not performing tasks that require a lot of memory, such as ...

StreamMyGame.com announced today the release of its free Linux Player, an application that enables you to play any PC game via a PlayStation 3 running Linux. The free StreamMyGame Server enables PC ...

Less than a year after the release of the PS3 Slim, Sony says that a firmware update for older models of the PlayStation 3 will kill its Other OS option. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

As promised three weeks back, and in the latest of a series of hands-on reports on Sony's PlayStation 3, I wanted to give you a brief update after my Linux-cognizant friend Denis fired up the console ...

Seriously all money will just go to the lawyers cause there is NO possibility you can prove you ran or used linux when the option was available. I used it, I have proof I bought the FAT 60GB PS3 at ...

As many people know Yellow Dog Linux, from Terra Soft, now runs on the Cell engine in Sony's PS3. That's very cool, but the thing many people may not realize is that Terra Soft isn't so much in the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. On April 1, Sony removed one of the PlayStation 3's original features, the option to install an alternate operating system such as Linux, with its ...

I just posted this in the gaming forum, but here may be a better place for it so I'm just copy/pasting...<BR><BR>So what is the state of Linux on PS3?<BR><BR>I don't have a PS3 yet and well will get ...

Sony has announced it would be dropping "Other OS" support from all non-slim PS3s. Other OS support refers to Linux which will vanish from machines during a firmware update set to go live April 1st.

Yellow Dog is the oldest distribution exclusively for PowerPC-type systems. Originally this would have meant things like Apple Macs - but since Macs now run Intel processors, the people running Yellow ...