It's been awhile since anyone has posted on this thread and the launch of the PS3 has come and gone. I was, fortunate, enough to walk into GameStop a few days ago, a few moments after they received a new shipment, and walked out with a 60 GB PS3. Pretty impressive console but that's another story...
Now, obviously, Slimserver was not the reason for buying the console but Yellow Dog have recently released an easy-to-install Linux build that takes advantage of the Cell processor. The latest Linux kernel also includes Cell specific code, as contributed by Sony. Basically, all distros from this point on should be compatible with the PS3. Has anyone successfully installed Slimserver on a PS3? The only show stopper I can see is the 256 MB of main RAM, although the 256 MB of video memory can also be utilized dynamically as RAM. Furthermore, the RAM is high speed XDR memory running at the same clock speed as the Cell (3.2 GHz) so, hopefully, it won't prove to be a bottleneck. With an attached high capacity USB external drive, the PS3 could make an incredible SlimServer. Any thoughts? If no one has done this, I may just go ahead and give it a try... El Duderino/OtoDoc -- El Duderino ------------------------------------------------------------------------ El Duderino's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8171 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28785 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
