[olug] More gloating

[Cesar Delgado]

Yup.  It'll be running YDL 5.0.  It's the same YDL you could run on a 
PPC Mac or an IBM machine.  There's no crippling of any sort.  Terra 
Soft is trying to build a community arround the YDL5 for PS3 so I 
wouln't be surprised if quite soon after the hardware's out MythTV front 
end and such will be ported over.  I think it would make a hell-uf a 
media center.

Daniel Pfile wrote:
> Cesar Delgado wrote:
>> So this was the other part of my summer.
>>
>> I got to work quite closely with the Enlightenment guys to make it 
>> happen.  I mean, if you're going to run Linux on a PS3 might as well go 
>> all out and get a sweet dektop on there.  It's amazing hat those guys 
>> did in the short time we had to get stuff done.  Changes in the back-end 
>> of E, bug squashing.  Those guys get serious kudos for their work. 
>> Brilliant people and an awsome dektop.
>>
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/10/16/1342243.shtml
>>
>>   
> So am I going to be able to buy an off the shelf PS3, put Linux on it,
> plug it into the network/tv/kbd/mouse and do whatever I want?
> 
> My xbox (which is only used for media) is getting a bit old, this could
> be a good upgrade.
> 
> -- Daniel