New PS3 firmware to remove Other OS feature

KNiVES said:
This whole Linux malarkey is getting ridiculous and out of hand. I know for a fact you can hook up PS3 controllers to desktop Ubuntu and play on MAME games. Who on earth uses their PS3 as a Linux/Unix platform? It's highly impractical. All the 'advantages' the PS3 had, you could simply outmatch by dual-booting with Ubuntu or Linux Mint (they have all the requisite drivers and compatible software packages out of the box) and doing the same but with vastly improved performance and better memory management, even on aging PC hardware.
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I know for a fact that the research department at my uni use PS3's for some of the projects they are working on due to the capabilities of the cell processor architecture. This knee jerk reaction from Sony to a perceived threat seems to be well over the top, and means that we may never see some exciting new apps that could be developed for the platform.
 
wozzizname said:
I know for a fact that the research department at my uni use PS3's for some of the projects they are working on due to the capabilities of the cell processor architecture. This knee jerk reaction from Sony to a perceived threat seems to be well over the top, and means that we may never see some exciting new apps that could be developed for the platform.
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Then surely they can not update and continue researching? It is not like they need the Blu-Ray, PSN, gaming services?


rp2000
 
wozzizname said:
Of course, but what about home developers who want to game as well ?
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I genuinely doubt any Home developers are out there. By all accounts it is crap to program/develop through the Linux way (and utilize the Cell stuff). If the average joe can do that at home then he is wasting his time on a PS3. I am sure serious developers are in a research field (like your Uni) or are in direct collaboration with Sony to write native apps that use the full Cell stuff (like the Folding@Home people).

People using it at home are just using it at home for Emulators and ripping Blu Ray (by all accounts anything too taxing graphically does not work via Linux anyway due to restricting the GPU functions behind a Hypervisor).

I don't think there is anything legal the Linux on a PS3 does that a £150 netbook could not do tbh.

If anything people with a 60GB PS3 with otherOS support will probably be able to command a premium for their consoles (from wannabe hackers etc).


rp2000
 
God this is sodding slow to download, what a joke!!!!!
2 hours so far and 35% I wanted a on line game tonight. Thanls sony, for a update which does nothing for the average user.
 
I have a Netbook with Ubuntu on and my main PC next to my PS3 with Vista on so I'm not really that bother. I hear Linux run terribly on the PS3 anyway.
 
Thnik some people are definitely overreacting. The number of people that use linux reguarly on a ps3 is probably extremely minimal, and majorly people who are just looking to find hacks.
 
The thing that bothers me though is, what's the point of removing it via firmware? People can at any time reset the console to its original firmware, and there you have it - secondary OS available again.
 
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