Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Oct 2006 22:13 UTC, submitted by mike hess
Yellow Dog Linux 5 has been announced. Surprisingly, it will first be released for Sony's Playstation 3, and then later for PPC Macs. Yellow Dog Linux 5 for the Playstation 3 will use E17 as its desktop environment (YDL's page on E17), which will be a boost to E17's adoption rate. Sony had mentioned the PS3 would include Linux in some capacity, but it has been unclear how Linux would fit into the rest of the system.
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2006-02-01
If it's anything like the Linux version that came out for the PS2 though, Sony will prevent use of the optical drive and the 3D hardware. They advertised this as an anti-piracy measure, but in reality it was so that people couldn't avoid having to buy an expensive PS2 dev setup in order to write decent games for the platform.
Still, arcade emulators and the like should still work, and the Cell might be powerful enough to emulate a Dreamcast purely in software. Plus it'll (aparently) have built-in PS1 compatability, so it's not all bad