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 ...

Things you need to know... no, really, this is important. It's worth noting a few technical limitations with the whole procedure. Firstly, Linux (called "Other OS" in the PLAYSTATION 3 interface) can ...

Sony giveth and Sony taketh away: When the company’s newest PlayStation 3 firmware update drops on April 1, it’ll remove a beloved feature once trumpeted as a system sale-maker. That’s right Linux ...

It’s easy to forget that the PS3 is a fully-equipped PC in your living room attached to your house’s best monitor. Installing Ubuntu can help you remember, and play SNES games in the process. It still ...

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.

It has been public knowledge since before the launch of the PlayStation 3 that it is capable of installing a GNU/Linux operating system. But how is this done and why would we want to do it? We examine ...

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 ...

Check out this article on the effect Sony’s move has on PS3 clusters used for supercomputing; something we hadn’t even thought of initially. It turns out that this patch was released more than a month ...