Playstation3 and other OS systems

Slick50

Has anyone installed any other operating system on their PS3, I'm thinking of trying to run Vista on mine:eek:, would appreciate any advice.
Thanks, regds.

NotorietyH

As far as I know you can only run Linux (or is it Unix?) based systems. Which would mean no Vista. I'm not sure, I'm not familiar with computer programming and all that malarkey. I'm pretty sure you can't run vista or any Mac OS on the PS3 anyway.

Haven't tried any other OSs myself considering my computer is only 15 feet from my PS3. The only bit of excercise I get is the walk across the room so I don't want to eliminate that!

TestTransmission

You can apparently,why you would want to is a completely different story

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/

Installing yellow dog is meant to be fairly straightfoward,I might get around to it some day

Blazer

Don't even bother trying to run vista on it...demo i saw of it took approx 15 mins to boot into vista.

Yellow dog is supposed to be very good for it though.

ferrigan101

I keep meaning to install yd6, have heard good and bad things about it though. Want to do it out of curiosty more than anythìng.

Professey Chin

I had ubuntu running on mine perfectly.Snappy snappy snappy

ferrigan101

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

I had ubuntu running on mine perfectly.Snappy snappy snappy

Any pros or cons? Was it worth it just for a decent web browser? :-)

Professey Chin

ferrigan101 wrote: »

Any pros or cons? Was it worth it just for a decent web browser? :-)

Worked great overall. Resolution was a little iffy but that was down to my old tv.Besides that it was pretty much a desktop.
Didnt read properly though and forgot how to boot into the XMB for a little while
If youve a big enough HD and kb/mouse obviously id recommend it

*Chin endorsement here*

tenacious-me

What's the point of installing any alternative OS on it?
Serious question as well, I'm not critiscising!

Penis Eye

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

I had ubuntu running on mine perfectly.Snappy snappy snappy

how??? i had it running but i couldnt run any programs! it kept sayong there was parts missing! it booted up ok and u could run a few simple games like minesweeper and the like! but i couldnt use it as a word processor or anything! was yours wireless?

Professey Chin

Penis Eye wrote: »

how??? i had it running but i couldnt run any programs! it kept sayong there was parts missing! it booted up ok and u could run a few simple games like minesweeper and the like! but i couldnt use it as a word processor or anything! was yours wireless?

I dunno. It just worked really
Granted I didnt do much on it.Just firefox, pidgin and openoffice once in a while. Never had any issues though.Never tried anything intensive since the GPU is restricted

Professey Chin

tenacious-me wrote: »

What's the point of installing any alternative OS on it?
Serious question as well, I'm not critiscising!

Proper web browser, IM, some office work. Not everyone has multiple PCs :pac:

Slick50

tenacious-me wrote: »

What's the point of installing any alternative OS on it?
Serious question as well, I'm not critiscising!

Because, the PS3 has blue ray, I have it hooked up to a nce Lcd in a room where I don't really have space for a PC too. I want to use it for web browsing, the PS3 seems very restrictive on what you can view on it. If not a Windows OS, any other suggestions. More importantly, has anyone had any problems with a rollback or removing an additionall OS.

Ri_Nollaig

bare with me, only recently (yesterday) got a ps3
but if you install an OS, some lunix distribution for example, will you have complete access to the hardware and be able to do, for example, install some ntfs support program, plug in a massive hdd via usb and play all the movies off it in their native res?

Professey Chin

Ri_Nollaig wrote: »

bare with me, only recently (yesterday) got a ps3
but if you install an OS, some lunix distribution for example, will you have complete access to the hardware and be able to do, for example, install some ntfs support program, plug in a massive hdd via usb and play all the movies off it in their native res?

Not complete. It would be restricted from the GPU as I said above so that may put a perdinky in your plan. As for NTFS support on the partition ive no idea