Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 for PS3 now available for free -- how is it?

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MuDoggy @ Jan 1st 2007 10:43PM

I have had linux on my ps3 for a while... I can't figure out why they give you a media player that can't play ANYTHING, or a music player that can't play mp3's. The web browser can't do flash, and its yellowdog so its not as easy as this "slackware" I've heard so much about.

Sony needs to get some automated installs or good links going to help us interested but confused.

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Utsav @ Jan 2nd 2007 12:52AM

Well, they'd have to pay license fees to play mp3s, or those proprietary files, and thus, you could not make a copy of that disc and just give it to anyone.

There should be an automated installer in Yellow Dog linux in form of a "package manager" perhaps?
-Look for a prepackaged mplayer, vlc, and flashplayer packages for Yellow Dog.
Usually in linux, I run mplayer with Windows DLLs to play back movies, however, on a ps3, you are on a different processor that will not support this trick. so you are stuck using reverse engineered formats. Fortunately, between mplayer and VLC, you've got your bases covered usually.
-Slackware is not necessarily easier
-Try linux on a PC first, making use of a guide to help you install software that you "must have". I like ubuntu, maybe try that one.

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