thinking about getting linux

snake3 · #1 02-14-2007, 08:24 PM

im thinking about putting linux on my ps3 i would probably use it for emulation and videos

can i use the ps3 controler with emulaters and wich one is the most user friendly (ive only ever used windows)

Krack3n · #2 02-14-2007, 10:00 PM

User friendly I would say YDL 5.0 to start but once your comfortable with Linux you should move to Gentoo.

snake3 · #3 02-14-2007, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Krack3n

User friendly I would say YDL 5.0 to start but once your comfortable with Linux you should move to Gentoo.

what is the main differences between ydl and gentoo

Krack3n · #4 02-15-2007, 12:10 AM

-If you don't know you should google up the two and read a bit about them.
-Since you have no idea what the difference is you should do some reading up on Linux in general.
Lots of noob guides online.

und0 · #5 02-15-2007, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by snake3

what is the main differences between ydl and gentoo

I would say the package system: YellowDog is a RedHat (Fedora?) based distribution, Gentoo instead was one of the first "source based" distribution (with BSD is the norm tho). You then have Slackware and Debian based distribution...

snake3 · #6 02-15-2007, 07:06 PM

ok i got ydl on my ps3 and i figured out to get to the command line i press ctrl+alt+f1 but once in the command line how do i switch back to the gui?

barf · #7 02-15-2007, 08:15 PM

CTRL+ALT+F6 Maybe?

Krack3n · #8 02-15-2007, 10:09 PM

startx

und0 · #9 02-16-2007, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by snake3

ok i got ydl on my ps3 and i figured out to get to the command line i press ctrl+alt+f1 but once in the command line how do i switch back to the gui?

It depends in which terminal the X server was binded, usually is the seventh, so Alt-F7, or you can use the "chvt" command, for all the details "man chvt"...

snake3 · #10 02-16-2007, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by und0

It depends in which terminal the X server was binded, usually is the seventh, so Alt-F7, or you can use the "chvt" command, for all the details "man chvt"...

thanks alt f7 worked

anyone know where i can get SDL 1.2.0 so i can compile zsnes?

und0 · #11 02-16-2007, 07:35 PM

Upstream is: http://www.libsdl.org/

But, probably there are RPM sources packages of the library or maybe even binary PPC RPM packages, but i don't know more, i've only used a RedHat distribution nearly ten years ago...

Anyway, i suspect you can't get ZSnes to work on PPC, it's heavily IA32 assembly based.

FWIW, there are Debian packages for PPC of SNes9x:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/snes9x-x, in other words, on Debian SNes9x is a couple of click away (and in Gentoo is probably a matter of emerging it)... (=