I use OtherOS. Do you? And what for?

[alephnull]

Vanbierk said:

alephnull said:
We have a cluster here we use for HPC and compiler research. While those machines won't be affected because they are setup to only boot into Linux, I bought one for myself to run code dangerous code on (some mmap tweaks live in kernel space) and watch movies/play games. My roommate is currently writing a Sudoku solver on it for a paper (Sudoku is NP hard I'm told).

Some of the Sony fans are getting really annoying. Just because YOU don't use it or don't know why anyone would want to use it, doesn't mean that no one does. The whole point of adding linux support was to let developers get familiar with the architecture without a huge investment.

Yes, but you most also understand, Alephnull, that most of the people who have the need for linux support in an actual productive setting, will be doing that nearly exclusively with their Playstation 3's, and won't have a need to get game updates...or for the PSN...or anything like that, just the otherOS functionality...You don't HAVE to update if you're using them for research purposes

Right, and as I said the machines in the cluster will be unaffected (assuming no jackass decides to try to play a game on one of them in the middle of the night not knowing he might accidentally destroy the machine). The thing is, I bought mine for when I don't want to work on the cluster (I hate Fedora) AND to play games when I don't feel like working. Now if I want to play any new games which come out -- without nuking my gentoo partition -- I need to A) buy another PS3 or B) carefully wait for Geohot's cracked Firmware updates.