It’s easy to forget that the PS3 is a fully-equipped PC in your living room attached to your house’s best monitor. Installing Ubuntu can help you remember, and play SNES games in the process. It still ...

Is installing Linux on the PS3 worth it? The bottom line: The PS3 makes for a reasonably good desktop when not performing tasks that require a lot of memory, such as ...

... okay, that's not a good start. Using my ninja Linux powers, it appears the system is running at 50Hz 576p (720 by 576 resolution) - a far cry from the 720p (1280 ...

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 ...

Firstly, I’ve briefly visited Ubuntu on my PC and it was nice, smooth and easy to use. Secondly Xubuntu doesn’t use up a lot of system memory which is good because Sony have prevented Linux from using ...

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.

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 ...

StreamMyGame.com announced today that its software now enables 2D applications as such as Microsoft Office as well as 3D games to be used remotely on low spec Windows notebooks, Linux devices and 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. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

So way back in June, Kutaragi was spouting some hyperbole about the Cell being the one processor to rule them all, with the ability to power a PS3 console running potentially multiple operating ...

When Sony nerfed Linux support for the PS3 in early April, we knew it was only a matter of time before someone pulled a pack of lawyers out of their pocket. Sure enough, a complaint (PDF courtesy IGN) ...