PS3 with Fedora 6 Linux

Well after many days of guesswork I finally picked up a PS/3 unit. Yes the choice was tough but I relented on the fact that installing Linux on it was on of the perks.

The PS3 has some nice features, if one could bear the brunt of its intimidating price tag of $700, first off it is one of the most "powerful" game systems out there, built in blue-ray making it one of the inexpensive blue-ray players. Powerful does not mean the best, in-fact the Wii is far more fun to play and the XBox360 has a greater selection of titles. We will get into DirectX development and XBox/360 game development in the future.

But the main deal is the capability to install other Operating Systems. This may seem quaint by some, but the fact of this exercise is to experiment with different methods of development of the games themselves.

Fedora 6, is the linux operating system we are utilizing. Installation of another variant Yellow Dog Linux, was our first choice but due to some anomaly in our original install we were unsuccessful in the installation.

So Fedora 6 it is.

After downloading the PPC version of the Fedora operating system, we then had to download the CELL Linux ADDON CD ISO image, which has the boot-loader (kboot/otheros.bld) and instructions needed to install the PPC version of Fedora Core 6 Linux distribution.

The installation went "well" and everything seems to work so far. We are having trouble with the wireless from the Fedora Linux side. Line-command usage may be required as the GUI (startx command) is awkward on our TV.

Now not everything is "perfect" with Linux on PS3, right off the back we are having issues with the built-in wireless adapter.