No linux in Slim

[Bokal]

I'll introduce this thread by saying I'm a huge linux and opensource advocate. Linux is on every single piece of hardware at my home.


Every? No... not on my PS3...

When I first bought my PS3, I was very excited about the ability to run Linux on it.

Then I tried the PS3 OS, and thought that most of the things I would have done on a comp, I could do it on PS3.

Then I read the reviews about the available distros for the PS3, and realised most of the interesting things about the PS3 were crippled. Due to the cell being a different architecture, you have to wait for your distro to package programs for you. If you can't find a package for a program you need, you have to compile it, which is not so simple on an architecture like the cell. So all in all, I thought it wasn't worth the effort and the gigabytes.

So I stopped using it as a good point for the PS3, I actually stopped talking about it, but remained interested in it, and was glad it was available yet for scientists.


Now, why do I write this thread?

I thought it was funny that PS3 fanboys used to praise the ability to install Linux on the PS3, and 360 fanboys were like "meh, useless". And now that it's been removed its "meh, nobody used it anyway" and "what? no more linux? deal breaker!"

Fanboyism is fun.

Definitely not a deal breaker, but I'm a little sad they removed it though, anyone knows why they did? It's not like it costs anything.