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PS3 will come with... Linux?
« on: March 15, 2006, 08:07:49 pm »
Linux and Gaming both seemed like appropriate places to post this, so instead I opted for General. 

Anyway, according to this article, the Sony Playstation 3 will come with a "60-gig hard drive, built-in network card, and Linux"

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2006, 08:13:38 pm »
Linux and Gaming both seemed like appropriate places to post this, so instead I opted for General. 

Anyway, according to this article, the Sony Playstation 3 will come with a "60-gig hard drive, built-in network card, and Linux"

Cool.  I'm a nub when it comes to console gaming systems, so I'll ask a nub question.  Did the Xbox 360 ship with Linux? :)

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2006, 08:15:25 pm »
No, like all other systems it can be modded. PS3 will feature free online as well. That's pretty awesome.
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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2006, 08:18:52 pm »
Linux and Gaming both seemed like appropriate places to post this, so instead I opted for General. 

Anyway, according to this article, the Sony Playstation 3 will come with a "60-gig hard drive, built-in network card, and Linux"

Cool.  I'm a nub when it comes to console gaming systems, so I'll ask a nub question.  Did the Xbox 360 ship with Linux? :)

I'm not sure what the Xbox 360's operating system is based on.  Since it's produced by Microsoft, I doubt it is Linux. 

I also doubt that the PS3 will come with any standard Linux variant, it's probably modified extensively to suit them. 

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2006, 08:20:46 pm »
I'm not sure what the Xbox 360's operating system is based on.  Since it's produced by Microsoft, I doubt it is Linux. 

I also doubt that the PS3 will come with any standard Linux variant, it's probably modified extensively to suit them. 

Hehe, kind of a stupid question.  Oh well.

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2006, 08:48:10 pm »
Playstation will own MicroSoft in the next-gen console wars for sure.
« Last Edit: March 15, 2006, 09:05:31 pm by GameSnake »

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2006, 08:53:47 pm »
No, like all other systems it can be modded. PS3 will feature free online as well. That's pretty awesome.
Free online!?

Like how you have to pay for XBox live access you'll just be able to hookup online like Battle.Net!?
*gasp*
Looks like I'll be buying a PS3.

Must stand in line to buy 2 of them.  One to hock on eBay & one to keep.

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2006, 09:02:07 pm »
From my understanding, which is most certaily outdated, I thought that Sony wasn't going to implement a centralized multiplayer service like XBox Live?

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2006, 06:50:41 am »
It was announced recently they are. There are several groups trying to get Linux on a 360, the current OS it uses is a stripped down XP (iirc) which is almost monotasking
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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2006, 08:53:10 am »
Playstation will own MicroSoft in the next-gen console wars for sure.

And then Nintendo Revolution will own them all. NES games for life!
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2006, 10:58:15 am »
I'm not sure what the Xbox 360's operating system is based on.  Since it's produced by Microsoft, I doubt it is Linux. 

I also doubt that the PS3 will come with any standard Linux variant, it's probably modified extensively to suit them. 

I'm sure the 360's OS is related to Windows in some way.  The original (Xbox OS) was based on Windows 2000, but heavily modified to a point where it was barely recognizable.  Considering that the Xbox 360 uses a tri-dual-core-PowerPC-processor architecture, I doubt that the kernel is even close to being the same.  It also uses non-traditional shader pipelines and allows the memory to be partitioned as the developer sees fit (as opposed to giving you memory and saying "that's what you get").  So a lot of things are much different than your traditional PC game programming, and I'm not sure that Windows would translate well.

As for the PS3 having Linux....  Isn't the point of Linux to bring Unix to x86 (or isn't that its roots)?  PS3 uses the Core processor, in this case a system with 7 symmetric cores (with one redundant) and the PowerPC-driver processor.

PS3 will feature free online as well. That's pretty awesome.
I haven't heard a thing about this, which is odd considering I've been following this generation pretty closely (since I was a 360 early adopter).  They seem to be putting a lot of eggs in one basket if it's true; I can't imagine they want to lose *that* much money on *every* PS3 console.  They might be offering a free basic service like Xbox 360 Live Silver.
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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2006, 11:54:25 am »
http://www.ps3portal.com/ps3/article/315.html
That article talks about PS3 BASIC online access being free.  Boo.

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2006, 01:27:54 pm »
Playstation will own MicroSoft in the next-gen console wars for sure.

And then Nintendo Revolution will own them all. NES games for life!
The point is Linux is going mainstream and finally out classing Microsoft.. finally.

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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2006, 02:06:00 pm »
The point of Linux was to bring UNIX to open-source. Linus himself uses a PowerPC, and IIRC, UNIX is x86 only.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: PS3 will come with... Linux?
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2006, 02:08:38 pm »
Playstation will own MicroSoft in the next-gen console wars for sure.

And then Nintendo Revolution will own them all. NES games for life!
The point is Linux is going mainstream and finally out classing Microsoft.. finally.
Out classing Microsoft?  What do you mean?