Getting LINUX up and running on your PS3!

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Now with Graf_chokolo recent amazing research on the PS3, LINUX has finally been making a great come-back return to the PS3 consoles, which been a long time coming when Sony decided to force it out of our consoles back a year ago!

With the recent new booting advancements it now possible to very easy install any Linux distro you wish on your PS3 console even if you running v3.55 or earlier firmwares, and to aid you in doing so, George234 has written up a nice short tutorial to guide you in getting everything up and running:

http://psx-scene.com/forums/f119/gui...ompiled-84469/ (Guide to install any linux distro you please....and also grafs latest kernel updates(precompiled))

For more great Linux discussion please visit our dedicated PS3 forum, which we have now assigned George234 a long-time valued PSX-SCENE member and amazing Linux guru as moderator to help you and us out in handling all the Linux noobies and keep us informed of the latest developments!

PS3 Linux Discussion - PSX-SCENE: The oldest and most trusted Playstation Scene Community

[saif1311]

Holy sh*t nice!!!
too bad im on 3.60 but well i guess ill be patient for a JB or downgrade =)

[dukhia]

wow...wow....I cannot thank you enough Graf, George and all other devs

[paul44]

I don't think I can resist trying this, thanks all involved!

What are the risks though, what potentially can go wrong? If the only risk is the possibility of losing data on the hard drive or having to format the drive if it fails then I am not concerned in the slightest.

[Philbird]

sorry i havent followed the linux on ps3 for a while.

does have linux full gpu support,
is xmbc running smoothly on linuxx now possible?

Greetings

[BigSteel]

sorry i havent followed the linux on ps3 for a while.

does have linux full gpu support,
is xmbc running smoothly on linuxx now possible?

Greetings

This is what I would like to know as well. If we can run Linux, can we presumably run a Linux version of XBMC?

[ModIT]

This is what I would like to know as well. If we can run Linux, can we presumably run a Linux version of XBMC?

Sure , you just have to port XMBC to PPC architecture - but in theory it is not a problem at all.

[iwasaperson]

I need some help with ubuntu 10.10 ppc for PS3.
Every time I try to check disk, run live, or install, it gives me a kernel panic. If I update to the latest kernel, will that fix the panic? Also, I noticed that the version of busybox is outdated, although I figure that it's pretty hard to port to ppc.

[Mack702]

Great .. Thanks for this awesome!!

[arifi]

Can we run the WII emulator on linux now?