On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:57:38AM -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
Hmmm. Hadn't heard that. I had been debating on a PS3, but I can build a Core2 based machine with more RAM for cheaper. I don't really game. However, I am debating on BD, and that may finally push me to it. Myself, I'd hack the case and add fans....
I also bought my PS3 for the BD and because I could easily slap linux on it. One thing to note is that @1080p, mplayer will drop frames while playing video full screen. If linux could use the GPU it'd make a great multimedia PC.... If it had a little more RAM and a TV tuner it'd be perfect.
That's not very encouraging. If I picked up a PS3, I'd have to run linux on it. YaST unfortunately wants to install all kinds of stuff no matter how you try to cut down your install. I used a SuSE Studio disk created for me that was really cut down, and when I ran the software management app, it tried to install basically the default install. Took forever to taboo all that crap, and then I ended up having to install off of the DVD anyway because I screwed something up.
Yeah, I wound up just doing a basic X install and building the awesome window manager from source. I don't usually keep a mouse plugged in to my PS3, so a good tiling WM works well and it doesn't use much RAM either. I have th 80GB PS3, so HD space isn't really an issue, but running a full desktop environment wasn't very pleasant.
I really wish there was a Damn Small Linux type distro for the PPC. I've looked into trying to make one, but I don't have the time(or patience probably). I've got a bunch of old macs that don't like the new versions of the current distros very much. I recently put SuSE 7.3 on one of my Powerbooks(thanks again to a fellow list person) and it was so much faster than 11.0. And everything worked right away. Oh well.
Hmm, I ran slackintosh on my powerbook for awhile and it was OK until I started missing yast. But I have a relatively new powerbook (G4 @ 1.5GHz) with lots of RAM, so performance wasn't _that_ big of an issue, but slackintosh was definitely more responsive. -- Evan McClain /* No Comment */ evan.mcclain@gatech.edu