Linux on Sony hardware has been done before, but not to any great success. Some of you may remember that the PS2 could run a strange version of the open source OS with a bought package that gave you a ...

Is installing Linux on the PS3 worth it? The bottom line: The PS3 makes for a reasonably good desktop when not performing tasks that require a lot of memory, such as ...

One man's "not that difficult" is another man's technical nightmare, so it's worth going through exactly what I had to do to get Linux up and running on the PS3. One major difficulty I did face was ...

The PS3: great, but will it run Linux? Sometimes, doing what you're told or permitted to do isn't enough. For decades, the geeks of the world have looked at common conventional items of consumer ...

Sony has been saying that it sees its new next-gen machine, the PlayStation 3, as more of a computer than a console. Terra Soft Solutions is now making Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 available for download for ...

The PS3 has been out for almost two years now, so it’s sorta odd to see a Popular Mechanics article explaining, in painful detail, how to install Linux on the system. But lo and behold, here we are.

The PlayStation brand has been very loyal to the Linux operating system since the days of the PlayStation 2 and even now on the PlayStation 3. Sony has allowed the installation and running of the open ...

Less than a year after the release of the PS3 Slim, Sony says that a firmware update for older models of the PlayStation 3 will kill its Other OS option. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

Want to use your PlayStation 3 to run applications like GIMP or surf the web using Firefox 3.0? Then simply install the latest release of Yellowdog Linux 6.1 on your console. The software is free to ...