In this post, I cover the why and how's of installing Linux on the PS3, and my personal experiences working with it for nearly two years. The bottom line: The PS3 makes for a reasonably good desktop ...

Linux on Sony hardware has been done before, but not to any great success. Some of you may remember that the PS2 could run a strange version of the open source OS with a bought package that gave you a ...

Now restart your PS3 and watch as it boots into the Xubuntu setup routine and shows you a lovely little picture of two Linux Penguins and a screen full of scary text. Don’t worry, things all look a ...

Linux distributor Terra Soft has announced that its Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 (YDL) product will run on the Playstation 3. Derived from Fedora Core 5, YDL is a complete Linux distribution optimized for the ...

Can we get the hottest video game system from Christmas 2006 and turn it into a Linux box? You bet! If you're still thinking about video game systems as being just a wee bit more technologically ...

If you've been interested in installing Linux on your PS3 but found the whole thing scary, there is now a flavor of Linux that is set up specifically for the PS3. While I find all Linux alien and ...

One man's "not that difficult" is another man's technical nightmare, so it's worth going through exactly what I had to do to get Linux up and running on the PS3. One major difficulty I did face was ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Sony has been saying that it sees its new next-gen machine, the ...

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. Those who own an older PS3 version and ...

The PS3 has been out for almost two years now, so it’s sorta odd to see a Popular Mechanics article explaining, in painful detail, how to install Linux on the system. But lo and behold, here we are.

For those of you who managed to get your hands on a PS3 and not get shot in the process, you’re probably itching to use that big ass machine to do some fancy media playback—like Sony’s been hyping.