Best place for Linux info and emulators for PS3?

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I'm trying to figure out where I can get some more software for the current Yellow Dog release of Linux for my PS3 but I really don't know where to start.
Anyone have any links?
 
Try the PlayStation 3 section over at http://www.yellowdog-board.com/ :)

Fedora and Gentoo-64 are popular alternatives to YDL for PS3, and you could probably find a lot of information about PS3 Linux on the PPC sections over at their respective forums.

1. YDL is very similar to Fedora (they both rely on RPM for package management), so the Fedora forums might be more useful than the Gentoo forums.
2. When browsing Gentoo forums, check the Alternative Architectures forum first -- the PS3 threads tend to pop up there more often there than they do in the PPC forum.

Fedora Forum: PPC
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=51

Gentoo Forum: Gentoo on Alternative Architectures
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-32.html?sid=b6824a9c1f4cfe8f9db5990f4172a0de

Gentoo Forum: Gentoo on PPC
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-24.html?sid=b6824a9c1f4cfe8f9db5990f4172a0de
 
Has anything come out thats good for linux on PS3? I still have it installed on my PS3 but haven't turned it on it since I installed about 5 months ago... :p
 
Bowhuntr11 said:
Has anything come out thats good for linux on PS3? I still have it installed on my PS3 but haven't turned it on it since I installed about 5 months ago... :p
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The problem is that they don't give real access to the video hardware (unaccelerated access), it only has 256mb of system RAM, and that programming on the Cell is a PITA compared to a more traditional SMP architecture. Combine all that with a relatively low install base and high cost of purchase, and it's not a real surprise that no one's really done much with it yet.

IMHO, the killer app, if it ever comes, will be massively-accelerated H.264 transcoding - but only if desktop CPUs haven't caught up by that time.
 
This seems like a good place to jump in with a kinda dumb question. This asshat PS3 fanboy that works at my local Gamestop claims he's running Windows on PS3 and using it to run Windows games and applications *rolls eyes hard*. Is this really being done, or is he, as I suspect, full of crap like 99% of all GS employees?
 
NSCTripleAgent said:
This seems like a good place to jump in with a kinda dumb question. This asshat PS3 fanboy that works at my local Gamestop claims he's running Windows on PS3 and using it to run Windows games and applications *rolls eyes hard*. Is this really being done, or is he, as I suspect, full of crap like 99% of all GS employees?
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He's full of it.
 
erwos said:
IMHO, the killer app, if it ever comes, will be massively-accelerated H.264 transcoding - but only if desktop CPUs haven't caught up by that time.
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It's already being done cheaply with new video cards, like AMD's 2400 PRO for $59 that offers both .264 and VC-1 decoding.
 
NSCTripleAgent said:
This seems like a good place to jump in with a kinda dumb question. This asshat PS3 fanboy that works at my local Gamestop claims he's running Windows on PS3 and using it to run Windows games and applications *rolls eyes hard*. Is this really being done, or is he, as I suspect, full of crap like 99% of all GS employees?
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It can be done but your just running a virtual pc over linux. Hell they showed this off a while ago on the first xbox. Think they were running windows 2000 on that though. As far as games go no most would not be playable.
 
BladeVenom said:
It's already being done cheaply with new video cards, like AMD's 2400 PRO for $59 that offers both .264 and VC-1 decoding.
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I said transcoding, not decoding. Those cards aren't going to help you go from MPEG2 to H.264.
 
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