buy the fat now its 299$ now too.

but seriously u guys install ubuntu in your desktop

yeah, i don't think PS3 supports  all the freeware programs people release. (did someone try it ? )

Ubuntu is beast on PC.

I reckon they probably figure all of the people that are interested this already own a ps3 and they are using the new slim to get on a single platform to make things easier.

I was actually concerned that Sony would remove a substantial feature from the Slim. If this is the only thing they removed, then that's fine with me.

Final score:

Microsoft  Windows  = 1 point.

free sorft  Linux        = 0 point.

I've tested Linux on PS3. It's nothing special anyways IMO. But maybe someone else thinks it's a great loss i don't know.

For me i couldnt care less because i have the ps3 to play games and never even knew what Linux was all about.

PS3 is positioned as a game system and movie player now, not a computer for doing work.  One less point to mess the system up with.

Oh a lot of people might be mad now.

@aion

why?

its the most useless feature & ate up 40GB of my hard drive

now I can't even frikken delete it because I need to format the hard drive!