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Terra Soft offering up 80GB PS3s with Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 pre-installed
Early last year, we polled the grand audience and found out just what you liked (and disliked) about Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 for PS3. Fast forward 13 months, and those still waiting on the sidelines have yet another option for jumping in. As of now, Terra Soft Solutions is offering up Sony's 80GB PlayStation 3 with YDL 6.0 pre-installed for $549.95, and yes, that includes the DVDs containing the OS. Interestingly, it seems as if you'll still have to pony up for a component or HDMI cable, but at least the option's there, right?[Thanks, Fiddlesworth]
Yellow Dog Linux now supports wi-fi on the PS3
Woot! Finally! Terrasoft announced this week that they've released a new version of Yellow Dog Linux for the PS3, and this version includes support for wi-fi and fixes some USB printer issues. I'm pretty stoked about this; the lack of wi-fi support is why I wiped the Linux partition off my PS3. Now that I don't have to string a 40' Cat 5 cable across my apartment, I may have to try YDL out again.Any other Linux PS3 guys out there?
Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 for PS3 now available for free -- how is it?
It's been kinda sorta available since mid-November, but it wasn't since the past week or two that Terra Soft's Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 was freely available (i.e. you didn't have to pay $100 for the DVDs) to make all your open-source PS3 dreams come true. Granted, they've made it pretty damned difficult to find the free version online, but supposedly it's a done deal. For the uninitiated, anyone looking for a more refined and pre-packaged approach to getting Linux on their PlayStation 3 should look no further than the Yellow Dog for Sony's officially sanction build; so what we want to know is, for those lucky and brave enough to have a PS3 and try to install Linux on it (respectively), what have your experiences been like with the Dog? Has it been worth your while? We're still holding out until Ubuntu gives us the love we crave. Well, that or until the OSS community get started on making an XBMC-like PS3 interface, since Sony believes all of your home's media should live on the PS3, and not on a media server. Right.
Yellow Dog Linux -- free and loving it
That's right, boys and girls, now you can easily download, burn, rip, install and repeat (or something) your way to a free alternate OS on your PS3. Terra Soft has unleashed a flurry of mirrors for you to use in downloading Yellow Dog Linux for the PS3 -- use them! It's free, after all. You can even grab YDL as a torrent file... my favorite.We'd list how to do this and give you a guide along the adventure, but their site does a decent job of that. Plus, we haven't done it yet. It's on the to-do list today, along with taking a shower and buying groceries. So, if you couldn't tell, there's not much else to distract this good ol' boy from tackling this task. Enough of my blabbering: go here and download, burn, boot, and enjoy your free Yellow Dog Linux.[thanks to everyone who alerted us to this!]
Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 to run on Sony's PlayStation 3
Sony's Kutaragi gave the rumor mill plenty of fodder by speculating that multiple operating systems were being mulled over for use in the PlayStation 3, and eventually Sony posted an article confirming its interest in both OS X and Linux options. Now it appears that we just might have a winner. Terra Soft's website proudly displays that the forthcoming version of Yellow Dog Linux "supports the PlayStation 3 console," and leaves hints that we might see a few sweet video demonstrations in the near future. While intricate details about the the OS's compatibility with the sure-to-be-scarce console are still few and far between, we're expecting it to drop "in mid-November" to presumably coincide with the November PS3 launch dates -- but at least pulling strings to get your name on a less-than-assuring pre-order list probably won't be necessary here.[Thanks, Clint]
