Post by: Serious Sam on December 02, 2006, 03:14:00 PM
Post by: epsilon72 on December 02, 2006, 11:05:00 PM
QUOTE(Hmerly @ Dec 2 2006, 07:21 PM) 
Its becoming pretty obvious to me that the only reason Sony added the whole Linux thing is so they can avoid being taxed in the EU as a game console. They recently lost several court cases and had to pay hundreds of millions in back taxes owed on the PS2. They argued the PS2 was a computer, but it didn't fly in the courts there. They've added Linux booting to the PS3 to save money, not to give consumers more features. Limiting it to a little over 200mb of memory and not allowing access to the RSX basically cripples this feature to the point that its useless. Its too bad as this would've been a fantastic multimedia center had it not been so feature limited. Although, I guess Sony realized how much trouble they could be in had they not limited Linux access to the system as hacks would've occurred quite quickly. Though, hacks are still probably going to come through this avenue.
Some linux is better than no linux at all. It's not completely useless, just give it time...
Post by: luther349 on December 05, 2006, 03:12:00 AM
Post by: Hmerly on December 07, 2006, 11:02:00 AM
QUOTE(epsilon72 @ Dec 3 2006, 12:12 AM)
Some linux is better than no linux at all. It's not completely useless, just give it time...
I prefer Sony to have focused on making the console less expensive, and better than a 1 year old Xbox 360 than to have enabled this "feature." So, in the end we have a system thats not even as good as a, according to Sony, non next-gen system. Yeah, having it boot a useless version of linux that is completly crippled is better than not having any linux. Try booting Windows without video drivers and see how great it is.
Post by: epsilon72 on December 08, 2006, 08:21:00 AM
QUOTE(Hmerly @ Dec 7 2006, 11:09 AM)
I prefer Sony to have focused on making the console less expensive, and better than a 1 year old Xbox 360 than to have enabled this "feature." So, in the end we have a system thats not even as good as a, according to Sony, non next-gen system. Yeah, having it boot a useless version of linux that is completly crippled is better than not having any linux. Try booting Windows without video drivers and see how great it is.
You having your own opinion is fine, but the ability to boot into linux is not something Sony "focused on" for a year to the detriment of developing other aspects of the system. The PS3 isn't a "1 year old xbox 360" - you should spend some time using one before you judge it so harshly. I own both an xbox 360 and a ps3, and both of them are very good machines, each with their own advantages.