Do you own a Sony Playstation (PS3) ? If you do then here is some good news for you. Now it is possible to install your favorite Linux distribution on a Sony PS3. Then you may ask, what is so unique about PS3 and why should I bother installing Linux on a machine which is primarily designed for playing games, right ?
You see, PS3 has the PowerPC architecture underneath its hood. More importantly, it is powered by IBM's Cell processor. The same processor which will be powering future IBM mainframes. So if you own a PS3 why not harness this awesome power of its processor to run Linux ?
Sony has provided an open platform for Playstation 3 where you can get details of installing another OS on your Playstation.
Apart from the above link, I came across a number of resources which provide step by step explanation of installing a specific Linux distribution on the PS3. They are as follows :
- Install Fedora on PS3 [ Read the article ]
- Install OpenSuSE on PS3 [ Read the article ]
- Install Ubuntu on PS3 [ Read the article ]
- Install Gentoo on PS3 [ Read the article ]
The only prerequisites for installing Linux on your PS3 is that the distribution you choose should have a CD image available for the PowerPC architecture. Other than that, I think the steps are more or less the same.
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