Sony released the "Other OS Installer" package for PS3 and I am currently downloading Fedora PPC DVD Image and will install it onto my 60gb PS3

My first time with Linux but the instructions are pretty simple and at the end I will have a Linux PS3 computer. They say any PPC app should run fine on it! Hope there are lots of emulators for Fedora

I have a feeling that "Back-up" game copies may be available sooner rather than later and will take advantage of this capability

Could you imagine if some bright spark figured how to install Windows XP on the PS3! It may only be a matter of time..

Instructions found here:

http://ps3.qj.net/PS3-Linux-The-void-has-b...pg/49/aid/73144

Edited November 26, 200619 yr by Ian_B

Sony released the "Other OS Installer" package for PS3 and I am currently downloading Fedora PPC DVD Image and will install it onto my 60gb PS3

My first time with Linux but the instructions are pretty simple and at the end I will have a Linux PS3 computer. They say any PPC app should run fine on it! Hope there are lots of emulators for Fedora

I have a feeling that "Back-up" game copies may be available sooner rather than later and will take advantage of this capability

Could you imagine if some bright spark figured how to install Windows XP on the PS3! It may only be a matter of time..

Instructions found here:

http://ps3.qj.net/PS3-Linux-The-void-has-b...pg/49/aid/73144

Any chance you can install XP inside a virtual machine running on Fedora?

Sony released the "Other OS Installer" package for PS3 and I am currently downloading Fedora PPC DVD Image and will install it onto my 60gb PS3

My first time with Linux but the instructions are pretty simple and at the end I will have a Linux PS3 computer. They say any PPC app should run fine on it! Hope there are lots of emulators for Fedora

I have a feeling that "Back-up" game copies may be available sooner rather than later and will take advantage of this capability

Could you imagine if some bright spark figured how to install Windows XP on the PS3! It may only be a matter of time..

Instructions found here:

http://ps3.qj.net/PS3-Linux-The-void-has-b...pg/49/aid/73144

Any chance you can install XP inside a virtual machine running on Fedora?

Not found anything online about that yet

I'm a complete Linux newbie at present and am looking forward to trying it out on the PS3.

If you haven't worked with it before you may want to try running it from a live cd on a pc first before you go making modifications to your ps3. You can download them and burn them yourself, or Ubuntu will send them free to you.

Wow! They have already gotten XP to install on it already!

http://www.gadgetell.com/2006/11/run-windows-xp-on-your-ps3/

Sony's claim that the PS3 is in effect a computer seem valid now

The homebrew floodgates have opened

It is not that difficult to run MS Windows XP as guest Operating System on a Linux system, you just have to run a virtual machine.

In the case of a Playstation you need a VM which runs on a PowerPC Linux distribution, most commercial versions only work on X86 processors. But lucky there is a Open source community, QEMU is a virtual machine which runs on PowerPC and X86 Linux.

Fedora has QEMU standard in the “extra” repository install list, which means you can easily install it by typing “yum install qemu” in a system terminal.

QEMU creates a 3.2Ghz Pentium II system, which is more then able to run Windows XP.

Running Linux on a Playstation 3 is not that bad idea, it is quickly one of the fastest Linux boxes with very good specifications. Currently the Linux kernel is not yet optimized to take full advantage of the multi core Cell processor in the Playstation, but that doesn't take that long.

The Cell processor in the Sony Playstation has compared to Intel technology, around 7 core's from which 6 processor core's do the actual work, one processor core is used as traffic controller

To show how simple it is to run MS Windows on Linux I install qemu and loaded MS Windows XP.

To show how simple it is to run MS Windows on Linux I install qemu and loaded MS Windows XP.

Seems like have lotsa time, yer?

Doesn't take to long to do, Qemu is installed in less then 5 minutes (including the download), install MS Windows is taking most of the time guess it was more then 30 minutes. I just boot from CD followed the setup startup and went to have dinner.

For the people who love the Mac more, you can of course also run a Apple Mac on your linux box.