A while ago, there was some talk talk of using PS2 as
for clustered computing, then sony pulled the plug
because they wouldnt sell as many games for ps2-linux
and hence wouldnt make as much of a profit. Its good
to see they saw sense.
I don't know if it would warrent buying one though,
although it would look pretty cute.
Just my two cents
David
--- William Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> may be of interest to some ... ;)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Munn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:53 PM
> Subject: Sony announce official Linux for PS2
> [Almost off topic, but not
> quite]
>
>
> >
>
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/26/1340202&mode=nested
> >
> > [quote]
> >
> > "Sony officially announced their port of Linux to
> the PlayStaion2 game
> > console. In the press release
> > <http://www.jp.playstation.com/linux/press.html>
> they mention that they
> were
> > moved by demand the community petition
> <http://www.fakeroot.net/ps2linux/>
> > (see this story
>
<http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/06/158259.shtml>)
> > demonstrated with over 6000 signers. The PS2 Linux
> Kit
> > <http://www.jp.playstation.com/linux/> page is
> currently only in Japanese
> > and there's not much info there yet other than
> some pictures. But
> according
> > to it, a Beta version is going to be sold to 1000
> members of the community
> > in June for about $200. The Kit is going to
> consist of an external
> > HDD/Ethernet unit connected to the PCMCIA slot,
> found on early Japanese
> PS2
> > models, a VGA adapter plus USB Mouse and Keyboard.
> Kits for oversee models
> > are supposedly in planning. The kit will include a
> complete Linux/X11
> > environment with all sources, technical hardware
> manuals for the EE, GS
> and
> > vectorunits plus a low-level API and Mesa drivers
> for graphics. " Won't
> work
> > for us unfortunate american PS2 junkies. But its a
> sweet step.
> >
> > [/quote]
> >
> > hmm - maybe sony are going to release something
> that might make me
> consider
> > a PS2 worth buying, at last ;-)
> >
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