angshuman Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 .. some other huge title I've forgotten right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 It's starting to move.. http://www.keshi.org/moin/moin.cgi/PS3/Debian/Live and http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/ppc64/ps3/ Both versions still very basic, but they're up and running now. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Okay, you can put Linux on PS3. Is there any practical reason to do this beyond the cool factor? Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angshuman Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Application development is very convenient on a GNU/Linux platform (completely my biased opinion, of course). For people that want to write, distribute and share homebrew apps such as games, media frontends and encoders/decoders, a familiar and powerful platform is a huge deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 It certainly does seem that many think that way. My tool is used in Windows, but all of our development is done on Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Okay, that is a definite plus. If we could put Linux on the PS3 is there other OSes that could be installed or is Linux based material is it? Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I think the distributed development methodology would be very conducive for multithreading, too. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Okay, I am convinced that I should, at some point, get a Playstation 3. Probably right after I get myself a HDTV and do a serious system upgrade for my PC. Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angshuman Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Okay, that is a definite plus. If we could put Linux on the PS3 is there other OSes that could be installed or is Linux based material is it? I believe Yellow Dog Linux (the "official" PS3 Linux distro) co-exists peacefully with the PS3 primary dashboard OS, and you can choose to boot either of the OS's during startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oerwinde Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Okay, I am convinced that I should, at some point, get a Playstation 3. Probably right after I get myself a HDTV and do a serious system upgrade for my PC. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I think the HDTV is the priority for me too. Nothing less than 40 inch. And at the rate prices are going down you'll probably be able to get a decent 40-50 inch HDTV for under a grand by next christmas. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I believe Yellow Dog Linux (the "official" PS3 Linux distro) co-exists peacefully with the PS3 primary dashboard OS, and you can choose to boot either of the OS's during startup. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It has an OS other than Yellow Dog Linux? I was under the impression PS3 was running it exclusively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angshuman Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 IIRC the primary PS3 Dashboard's kernel is also Linux-based (although I don't understand how they can get away with not distributing the source code). YDL is a full-featured Linux distribution that you can install and dual-boot into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 It would be cool if we could install Windows on a PS3. If we could do that I would then ship it to Bill Gates. HA! Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 (although I don't understand how they can get away with not distributing the source code). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Probably the same way NVidia distributes its closed-source Linux driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 I think the idea angshuman was talking about was that if the kernel is Linux-based, it'd be part of the numerous open-source licenses, such as the GPL, that Linux is distributed under. As far as I know, there's nothing "Linux-based" about the closed-source driver that nVidia makes, outside of the fact that it's designed for Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 (edited) I think the idea angshuman was talking about was that if the kernel is Linux-based, it'd be part of the numerous open-source licenses, such as the GPL, that Linux is distributed under. Yes, but they don't have to modify the kernel source. Chances are that what they need is drivers for PS3-specific hardware. If implemented as loadable kernel modules, GPLing the code can be avoided. It is the practice used by many embedded Linux vendors. As far as I know, there's nothing "Linux-based" about the closed-source driver that nVidia makes, outside of the fact that it's designed for Linux. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It is not that simple actually. There is a lot of controversy whether a kernel loadable module is a part of the kernel or not, because it "interacts with kernel in a very intimate manner" [Linus Torvalds]. I haven't been following this debate for a couple of years now, so I can't tell what's happening today. Edited January 19, 2007 by Diamond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 Linus has swapped sides recently, too, hasn't he? (Isolating him from the community he created.) OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karka Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 (edited) What about getting $840 worth for $840? http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=72194 Edited January 24, 2007 by karka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 While at Eurogamer I found this article: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=72081 Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surreptishus Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 (edited) What about getting $840 worth for $840? http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=72194 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, but an equivalent PC would cost Edited January 25, 2007 by Surreptishus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 (edited) Yes, but the Brits gave us Bonnie Langford so they deserve to get ripped off. Edited January 25, 2007 by Sand Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted January 26, 2007 Author Share Posted January 26, 2007 The Playstation 3 seems to be having a few serious problems: Sadly what he has said is something that anyone who knows me on these forums will know I have warned about ever since I began doing work on PS3 (I contract so sony can't really slap me with an NDA as I'm not affiliated with them, only certain projects I can't mention ha!). The PS3 is great for small projects due to the hard and fast memory split, which doesn't hamper casual games. PS3 needs to stream content for anything larger like resistance or motorstorm and as I've mentioned before, blue-ray is no good at that full stop. As a result we had to compress the sh** out of all graphics and then uncompress on the fly, before moving the uncompressed stuff to graphics memory and...yep we get framerate issues! This will be true of any PS3 project. We are getting better at arranging the data on blue-ray to facilitate efficient streaming but, can do jack about the slow seek speeds of the disk drive itself. No wonder the British devs have been gagged. In the circles I move in we were all more than vocal about the crap sony have handed to developers. It really does feel like they made a blue-ray player and then though oh heck it's supposed to play games too isn't it! The cell can actually play a blue-ray disk without even accessing the gpu so maybe this is why they thought the cell was all powerful. Not realising that de-compressing blue-ray movies and reading a disk serially is not what a games oriented processor needs to do! For games it's all about the texture storage, ai based on branching instructions, good predictive branching in short almost the opposite of what an spu does well. Developers almost without exception (it depends on the game you write) have scaled up their projects from the proof of concepts that you see at shows like E3 (well did see anyway) simply don't fit into PS3 memory and then stall once you try to stream the data from the disk. Haveing done this myself, I bet there are developers at most PS3 software houses who have had to go to their boss and say "Er you know we said march, well er...no way that's happening. We couldn't get the big track to perform above 30fps when we streamed the data for it and did all the compression/decompression etc. etc. for the realtime game and 1080p er unless everything fits into 256mb of graphics memory well forget that too!". For the record the 256mb for data is not a real restriction yet. I've yet to work on anything that was above about 100mb or so for actual game code (usually less than that even) Looks like Epiphany might have been right about one thing. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Why a hard disk can't be used for temp texture files? Or PS3 doesn't have one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirottu Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) I was thinking about that too. I mean PS3 comes with either 60gb or 20gb HD. Edited January 26, 2007 by kirottu This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Or even some flash memory ... " OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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