Spectrum Online—Tomorrows Technology Today
Font Size: A A A

« Sony to Enter Video Download Game | Main | BioShock Wars: Xbox vs. PC »

Running Linux on Your PS3

I wrote a feature for Spectrum about how game designers Insomniac are working with the Playstation 3's Cell processor. This week at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Sony is demoing how to install and run Linux and Firefox on the PS3 as a means of running online office applications. The showcase will include a system fetching web pages over a Wi-Fi connection.

This comes on the heels of my post yesterday about Sony's battle for control of the living room. And who said game systems are just about games?

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-t.fcgi/3074

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Running Linux on Your PS3:

» PS3 Phone Home from The Sandbox
Why am I blogging about the PS3 so much lately? It seems Sony is giving us more and more reasons to divine some master takeover at play. The latest salvo: word of a Playstation-branded phone. This doesn't surprise me in... [Read More]

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on September 5, 2007 1:10 PM.

The previous post in this blog was Sony to Enter Video Download Game.

The next post in this blog is BioShock Wars: Xbox vs. PC.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Recent Posts

The Authors

David Kushner is very possibly an alien.

Rob Garfield is almost certainly an alien.

Harry Teasley is quite definitely an alien.

Powered by Movable Type 3.35
Hosted by LivingDot