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Report: Hacker Restores Linux Support to PS3
by Brian Leahy, Apr 07, 2010 5:30pm PDTOn April 1, Sony removed Linux support on the PlayStation 3 through the OtherOS feature with a firmware update. Before the firmware was live, hacker George Hotz ("GeoHot") vowed to restore support for Linux.
Engadget reports that he has been successful, just one week after the firmware update went live, according to a YouTube video that he has posted.
Now, a video like this is easily faked, but GeoHot is known to be an extremely skilled hacker. While the custom firmware (CFW) hasn't been released to the public yet, GeoHot writes that it "can be installed without having to open up your PS3, just by restoring a custom generated PUP file, but only from 3.15 or previous. It's possible this CFW will also work on the slim to actually *enable* OtherOS."
Restoring support to old model PS3s is one thing, but adding support to the PS3 Slim is an accomplishment on a much larger level. Again, I'm not sure why you would want to run Linux on a PS3, but it's the principle of the thing, I suppose.
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There was no need to crack the PS3. Well, one reason. Piracy.
Good going, douche.
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Ohhh yeah, tell that to scientists who use the PS3 as a computer grid, tell that to F@H and other projects that use the PS3 online, tell that to the US and other armies who use the PS3, and so on. :/
There's more uses for the Linux support, than piracy only... :/
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Shitty analogy, I know but feck it, I'm only up out of bed....,
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6594907.stm
More than 250,000 PS3 owners have enrolled their console in the Folding@Home project which uses it to study the shapes proteins assume. So many have signed up that the project has carried out a year's worth of research in a month.
http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/cluster/ps3/coe.html
Mueller, an associate professor of computer science, has built a supercomputing cluster capable of both high-performance computing and running the latest in computer gaming. His cluster of eight Sony PS3 machines — the first such academic cluster in the world — packs the power of a small supercomputer, but at a total cost of about $5,000, it costs less than some desktop computers that have only a fraction of the computing power.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51632
The PlayStation 3's beefy Cell processor is being used in new supercomputing research projects by the University of Massachusetts and the US Air Force.
http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html
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Seriously this is great.
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#1 For a "genius" he can't even navigate the fucking ps3 menus.
#2 I bet he just twiddled some bits and changed the version number of the previous firmware that was already on his ps3 to make it look like it was the latest version.
B S
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