Tutorial: Install & Optimize Ubuntu for Beginners!

[pshomebrew]

Hi all.

I have written a guide to help beginners install and configure Ubuntu on their PS3.

It includes:
- Installing Ubuntu
- Using PS3 vram as swap.
- Install LXDE (A lightweight desktop environment).

You can find it here: Installing Ubuntu on PS3 - PSHomebrew

[VriskaBlack]

Good guide, but could you also include how to use USB as swap?
Also, you say "coming soon" about a lot of things. Do you have any proof for this?

[pshomebrew]

Good guide, but could you also include how to use USB as swap?
Also, you say "coming soon" about a lot of things. Do you have any proof for this?

Using a USB stick as swap is not recommended as flash memory only has so many read/write cycles. It is also not as fast as the vram. I may add an optional guide to use it though.

As for the coming soon stuff, wireless is being worked on atm (it's in the todo list of a couple of devs) and SDTV support is basically just waiting for a version with the resolution modified.

[CoBrA2168]

Hi all.

I have written a guide to help beginners install and configure Ubuntu on their PS3.

It includes:
- Installing Ubuntu
- Using PS3 vram as swap.
- Install LXDE (A lightweight desktop environment).

You can find it here: Installing Ubuntu on PS3 - PSHomebrew

Awesome guide. Will try this once I get my USB keyboard.

Thanks!

[Tallica]

How do I extract the Ubuntu image files? I have all 3 parts but when I remove the .001-003 extention leaving the .rar extension I can't unzip. Tried 7zip with the same result. Little help please.

[pshomebrew]

Either join with HJsplit or use 7-Zip (don't remove the .001 etc. extension).

Will add this to the tutorial.

[neoroses]

Safe man, nice little guide there. Just one quick question is the ubuntu that you provided links to just ubuntu 10.10 or is it a special ps3 flavor!? Just wanted to know as i already have loooooooads of ubuntu images and if i can use them i will

peace

[pshomebrew]

It's the 11.04 beta.

[neoroses]

Ok thats kewl, will 10.10 work? and how come you dont just provide a link to the offical download of the ubuntu servers? i dont mean to come across as "you should do this" ish..just a suggestion.

peace

[pshomebrew]

Ok thats kewl, will 10.10 work? and how come you dont just provide a link to the offical download of the ubuntu servers? i dont mean to come across as "you should do this" ish..just a suggestion.

peace

Because it is not an official version of Ubuntu. It has a modified kernel and other changes to make it work on PS3. It was made by madshaun1984 from PS3hax.