PS3 operating Systems

[David]

Just wondering if anyone else has installed different operating systems on their PS3? My Laptop took a **** yesterday (power issue) so i'm short 1 computer in the house. Last night, I went and bought a bluetooth keyboard so she could do her online homework on the PS3 but the browser that comes stock ****ing sucks and it wouldn't display the pages we needed. :rolleye: I was going to attempt to install a different browser but the operating system didnt' seem to like what i was doing... SO i did some googling and found out you can install different operating system like linux on the pS3.

Before i venture to this has anyone done this? What is involved? how do i switch between operating systems? I assume with a different operating system i can run browswer like firefox or IE. if not why?

what are the limitations of the opterating systems on the PS3? this is new water for me... so thanks in advance.

[turbodaytona87]

It looks like sony included an option to do just that in the original PS3 OS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_3

Also here is a video of Fedora on the PS3 kinda shows the option to install it and run it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXcuhJkwx4

[Alley]

I've just heard if you dont' kwno what your doing you can crash the system and your ps3 will never turn on again.

[spoonraker]

Well for one, it's Linux. You need to use a lot of console commands to successfully use Linux, it's not like Windows where everything is point and click. Also, you're installing it on a PS3, so good luck finding drivers. Who knows what the existing hard drive structure is on the PS3, and if you delete or modify the partitions wrong you could wipe out your PS3 OS.

Installing Linux on things other than PCs is really more of a hobby for Linux enthusiasts who know everything about the OS and not so much a useful mod for the general public.

Good luck if you do try it. I would just buy a new computer, you can build one from scratch for less than the price of a PS3.

[David]

Thank you for all the great information that i had no idea about. :rolleye:

[spoonraker]

*****

[David]

looks like xp is an option.

[spoonraker]

If you could find a way to install the Xbox 360 OS I'm sure you'd **** a ton of people off...but I don't see that being very plausible. :)

[David]

^^ what an amazing idea. part of me believes someone has tried it... but that would be the end all console mod.

[spoonraker]

I really wonder if anybody has tried it lol, it was just kind of a crazy idea, but man would that ever be sweet if somebody could actually pull it off.

[88alltrac]

i heard someone talking about running linux off a portable harddrive but still using the ps3 to run it. and i think all the drivers for it can be found in a nice little bundle somewhere.
this is all just what my roommate told me though it could be wrong.

[turbodaytona87]

Well for one, it's Linux. You need to use a lot of console commands to successfully use Linux, it's not like Windows where everything is point and click. Also, you're installing it on a PS3, so good luck finding drivers. Who knows what the existing hard drive structure is on the PS3, and if you delete or modify the partitions wrong you could wipe out your PS3 OS.

Installing Linux on things other than PCs is really more of a hobby for Linux enthusiasts who know everything about the OS and not so much a useful mod for the general public.

Good luck if you do try it. I would just buy a new computer, you can build one from scratch for less than the price of a PS3.

Really? I thought KDE or Gnome took care of the GUI portion? I have Linux installed on my xbox, know how hard it was? It wasn't.

[spoonraker]

Linux is usable with a GUI, but to really get the most out of it you need to know the commands. It's also way faster to use command line than GUI, although it takes lots of practice.

If the only thing you're gonna use Linux for is just to install and browse the internet and brag about it, then it's pointless. There is a very good amount of freeware available that can make you do most basic office productivity stuff in Linux, but everybody knows that 99% of programs aren't supported by it.