may be of interest to some ... ;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Munn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:53 PM
Subject: Sony announce official Linux for PS2 [Almost off topic, but not
quite]
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/26/1340202&mode=nested
>
> [quote]
>
> "Sony officially announced their port of Linux to the PlayStaion2 game
> console. In the press release
> <http://www.jp.playstation.com/linux/press.html> they mention that they
were
> moved by demand the community petition <http://www.fakeroot.net/ps2linux/>
> (see this story <http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/06/158259.shtml>)
> demonstrated with over 6000 signers. The PS2 Linux Kit
> <http://www.jp.playstation.com/linux/> page is currently only in Japanese
> and there's not much info there yet other than some pictures. But
according
> to it, a Beta version is going to be sold to 1000 members of the community
> in June for about $200. The Kit is going to consist of an external
> HDD/Ethernet unit connected to the PCMCIA slot, found on early Japanese
PS2
> models, a VGA adapter plus USB Mouse and Keyboard. Kits for oversee models
> are supposedly in planning. The kit will include a complete Linux/X11
> environment with all sources, technical hardware manuals for the EE, GS
and
> vectorunits plus a low-level API and Mesa drivers for graphics. " Won't
work
> for us unfortunate american PS2 junkies. But its a sweet step.
>
> [/quote]
>
> hmm - maybe sony are going to release something that might make me
consider
> a PS2 worth buying, at last ;-)
>
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