Woohoo ! After a long delays and issues (in the last few days) I’ve managed to install openSUSE 11.1 in my PS3. Running a full blown desktop is very sluggish. Reminds me of my first computer (amdk6 500mhz). Some screenies :
Now onto get the Cell SDK running … Synergetic Processing Elements (SPE) here i come !
My friend is waiting for Ubuntu to Just Work on his PS3.. should he just use Opensuse instead? How many problems did you have?
Comment by ethana2 — July 4, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
i’m not sure what problem you are facing with Ubuntu. But openSUSE install was easy (I didn’t do anything special). I didn’t run GNOME Desktop much. I’m interested in the programming part, so all i need is just a console
. HTH.
Comment by Johnny — July 5, 2009 @ 6:50 am
Pretty sweet!
How did you install OpenSUSE on it, are there are any easy-to-follow HOWTOs?
Comment by Miguel de Icaza — July 5, 2009 @ 3:50 am
@Miguel : en.opensuse.org/PS3 was all i needed. It is pretty straight forward.
Comment by Johnny — July 5, 2009 @ 6:47 am
Cool stuff!
Comment by Suresh Jayaraman — July 5, 2009 @ 7:49 am
Did you use HDMI display? I heard looong time back that, it is easy using that than SDTV.
Comment by Nikanth — July 6, 2009 @ 6:08 am
I’m using HDMI out ( have a DVI HDCP compliant display. so a HDMI -> DVI)
Comment by Johnny — July 6, 2009 @ 8:27 am
I found I had to either turn off Nepomuk in KDE or use Xfce as all the memory was used up.
Did you find the icons change colour – the reds and blues swap?
Comment by purple-bobby — July 8, 2009 @ 11:49 am
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