Now restart your PS3 and watch as it boots into the Xubuntu setup routine and shows you a lovely little picture of two Linux Penguins and a screen full of scary text. Don’t worry, things all look a ...

Is installing Linux on the PS3 worth it? The bottom line: The PS3 makes for a reasonably good desktop when not performing tasks that require a lot of memory, such as ...

Linux on Sony hardware has been done before, but not to any great success. Some of you may remember that the PS2 could run a strange version of the open source OS with a bought package that gave you a ...

The PS3: great, but will it run Linux? Sometimes, doing what you're told or permitted to do isn't enough. For decades, the geeks of the world have looked at common conventional items of consumer ...

Linux distributor Terra Soft has announced that its Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 (YDL) product will run on the Playstation 3. Derived from Fedora Core 5, YDL is a complete Linux distribution optimized for the ...

Less than a year after the release of the PS3 Slim, Sony says that a firmware update for older models of the PlayStation 3 will kill its Other OS option. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

Sony's move to disable Linux on the PlayStation 3 is being met by a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the company of unjustly enriching itself at the expense of its customers. Citing "security ...

Sony has been saying that it sees its new next-gen machine, the PlayStation 3, as more of a computer than a console. Terra Soft Solutions is now making Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 available for download for ...

When Sony nerfed Linux support for the PS3 in early April, we knew it was only a matter of time before someone pulled a pack of lawyers out of their pocket. Sure enough, a complaint (PDF courtesy IGN) ...

I almost bought a Sony PS3 specifically so that I could use Linux on it. Now, I’m glad I didn’t, because Sony has announced that in an upcoming firmware release they’re going to remove support for ...

Sony Computer Entertainment America has just been hit with a class action lawsuit in California over the company's recent decision to remove PlayStation 3 support for the Linux operating system in a ...

Sony is apparently going after more hackers than just George Hotz and fail0verflow. Sony is looking to get DMCA suits against all PS3 jailbreakers who share Sony’s source code on Github. Well-known ...