| waron said: it seems pretty good but it doesn't work on ps3 at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofRYBnXfgYE watch from 4:50 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y8WrkDRMuI
I don't know, Linux seems to be pretty awesome on the PS3. The video you posted seems to be pretty uninformed. GPU is locked, so obviously no hardware acceleration, including 2D acceleration. Playing emulators natively at full screen can be slow because of the lack of any hardware acceleration. However, the community has provided a tool that uses one of the SPEs to zoom in on the center of the screen, allowing emulators to run in "full screen" without taking a hit on framerates. More information here: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-guides-tutorials/how-setup-spe-scaler-tool-ps3-linux-100230.html
Youtube doesn't work on Linux PS3 because Flash doesn't support the PPC architecture. There are reportedly some ways to work around this with plug-ins and such, but I can't attest to whether or not they work, or how well they work. Although it seems to work pretty well based on this video (provided you put a little extra effort into getting youtube on the PS3 working): http://www.savevid.com/video/youtube-working-in-yellow-dog-linux-60-on-the-ps3-with-how-to-in-the-description.html
Of course, Linux on the PS3 won't be able to do everything that Linux on a PC does. Still, it seems to be pretty serviceable, depending on what you want to do with it. Programmers might be interested in playing around with the Cell processor. Others might want to play a lot of retro games through emulation. And others might want a more robust media player, without having to rely on a PC to stream/transcode videos in formats the PS3 doesn't support. There are a lot of possibilities with Linux on the PS3. Just because it doesn't play CS or Quake 3, and it doesn't support flash (actually flash doesn't support the PPC) does not mean it doesn't work at all.
