Linked by David Adams on Wed 16th Apr 2008 15:34 UTC, submitted by LinucksGirl
The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In the third and final article of this series on PS3 Linux Peter Seebach talks about ways to get X11 slimmed down to fit on a smaller memory budget.
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It is real sad that people are devoting time to work around things that are artificially crippled.
Sony is dumb. Nobody is going to buy a PS3 to run TuxRacer on so why not give access to the graphics hardware.
Maybe people would run nes or snes emulators but they could do that with a $100 used xbox and a software exploit.
If people are paying what they're paying for a PS3, they're going to buy PS3 games and Blu-ray movies. Giving access to the graphics hardware isn't going to change that.
I think these people, instead of finding weird ways to get stuff done inside the sandbox, they should be finding ways out of the sandbox. This is what the iPhone guys are doing. They're not accepting Apple's sandbox and they found a way out of it. They actually found a way out of the sandbox before Apple even let them play in the sandbox.
I ran Gentoo on my PS3 a while back before my optical drive broke and I had to send it in. I haven't loaded Linux back on there since it wasn't worth the effort.