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Sony to release Linux for PS2

  • 29-04-2001 12:02pm
    #1
    smoke.me.a.kipper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭


    read this on cnet...
    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Linux fans who want to run their favorite operating system on the Sony PlayStation 2 game console apparently will get what they've been hoping for.

    On Friday, Sony posted information on the Beta Release 1 of its PlayStation 2 Linux Kit, including a press release on its Japanese site that puts its price tag at 25,000 yen, or about $200.

    The kit includes a DVD with software, 40GB hard drive, keyboard and mouse. The beta, or test, version will be available in June.

    More than 6,000 people signed a petition earlier this year to encourage Sony to work on the project.

    The PlayStation 2 is powered by a MIPS chip. One of the benefits of Linux is that it's comparatively easy to get it working on different CPUs.

    Sony selected Linux to help game developers simulate the PlayStation 2 so they could get a jump on creating games before the actual hardware was available.

    Running Linux on the game console itself, though, is a different matter entirely. Rumors of the possibility have been circulating on Slashdot, a news and discussion site popular with Linux fans.

    The programming blueprints, or source code, for the kernel--the heart of Linux--is included on the DVD, Sony said. But the source code for a proprietary "runtime environment" that lets games play on the system is not.
    </font>

    discuss!


Comments

  • #2
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Wot OS are they runnin at the mo?


  • #3
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Wot OS are they runnin at the mo?</font>

    It's a proprietry Sony jobbie.

    The Linux PS2 will only be released in Japan BTW, at least initially.

    adam


  • #4
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    The development kit for ps2s are running a version of linux already if im not mistaken.

    "when im finished games i like to run shell scripts"... perhaps it has more use in Japan where broadband is actually available for console use... file sharing/mail/web browsing etc.
    Still I find it funny that someone would be running ftp or telnet daemons on a ps2 smile.gif


  • #5
    smoke.me.a.kipper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,626 ✭✭✭smoke.me.a.kipper


    here's a pic of the linux kit that i found.

    01.jpg


  • #6
    Celt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭Celt


    Nice ill be running linux on my ps2 before my PC smile.gif


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