1. Blimey!

   Talk about one extreme to another…

   (30 May 2008)
   “Video: how to get your PS3 online with a wired connection…”

   Is anybody here running any variant of Linux on their console?

   I just haven’t got the hard drive capacity to even consider it

   BFN,

   fp.

   
   Comment by fanpages — Jun 27, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

2. i prefer mine hardwired to the router, feels more stable.

   ran Ubuntu on my PS3 with a nice selection of software/customisation, pretty easy to do, but since i upgraded to a 250Gb HD i decided not to bother, after all i have a xp-pc for doing anything sensible/work based.

   
   Comment by mobiletone — Jun 27, 2008 @ 12:17 pm

3. Ubuntu - why whats your problem pages?

   
   Comment by JohnSketch — Jun 27, 2008 @ 1:21 pm

4. My hard drive is always 95-99% full of downloaded ‘Store videos & demos, and full games I’ve bought. I have four MP3 files (for playing within the “Pain” jukebox), and that’s it. Hardly ever have any messages stored, and no photos at all.

   I’d like to buy a few more PlayStation Network titles, but I am seriously running short of on-board capacity, so I always have to off-load the videos to an external USB drive. I’ve tried TVersity but it doesn’t cope with my wireless network very well. OK, it did for a week, then it just got tiresome enough to not use any more.

   A 250Gb LaCie hard drive now holds all the video downloads from every region

   Just this morning I had under 1Mb free & I need to find almost 5Gb for “Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy” & 300Mb for “Battlefield: Bad Company” when I get home this evening

   One of the self-imposed issues of downloading stuff from other regions, I guess.

   Whenever I buy the Official UK PlayStation Magazine & the cover-mounted disc has a playable demo I have pre-installed already I uninstall it as I can re-install quicker than re-downloading.

   Damn Sony & their great games! If the were as kak as, say, the Wii, then I’d have loads of space left

   BFN,

   fp.

   
   Comment by fanpages — Jun 27, 2008 @ 1:40 pm

5. I wanted to run linux but reading the stuff about it, it appears that you need a high definiton tv and i sadly dont have one at teh moment.

   I have to say thought that i use the ps3 wirlessly and its really impressive easily out performs my laptops wirless capabilitys.

   Can play online and even host mgo servers with no lag what so ever.

   
   Comment by yxxxx — Jun 27, 2008 @ 1:42 pm

6. “If the were as kak as, say, the Wii, then I’d have loads of space left”

   Saving space by dropping characters from words now [as I cannot do it with hard drive contents]!

   “If theY were as kak as, say, the Wii, then I’d have loads of space left”

   

   If I wish to keep my European (UK) 60Gb release day console in the same state I bought it (for posterity sake), then I can see I’m going to have to buy another PS3 & “pimp it” with a larger drive before too long.

   This aside, what is the most interesting task you have done with Linux installed? Do you regularly take screen images of in-game content?

   BFN,

   fp.

   
   Comment by fanpages — Jun 27, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

7. @ JohnSketch - HUH? if you mean why Ubuntu, well, everyone and his yellow dog uses the nerd version, i just couldn’t be fussed and took the easiest option.

   runs Gimp, firefox, etc etc etc, only thing missing was a decent video editor, and well, what with the lack of RSX chip support.. what is the point?

   now. i have to leave this office, race home and play Bad Company

   
   Comment by mobiletone — Jun 27, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

8. Wired FTW

   
   Comment by elephant_stone — Jun 27, 2008 @ 5:07 pm

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