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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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 
RE[2]: How does this work?
by moondevil on Tue 17th Oct 2006 09:23
in reply to "RE: How does this work?"
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Does this mean you'll be able to run emulators and homebrew on it? If so, this might be worth the $600. For that, you get a machine that does 1080p, can play pretty much every arcade & console game ever made up to (and possibly including) the Dreamcast, along with PS2 & PS3 games. And just for bonus, there's probably some DVR capabilities and a blu-ray player in there too.
Edited 2006-10-16 22:44