It’s easy to forget that the PS3 is a fully-equipped PC in your living room attached to your house’s best monitor. Installing Ubuntu can help you remember, and play SNES games in the process. It still ...

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 has been out for almost two years now, so it’s sorta odd to see a Popular Mechanics article explaining, in painful detail, how to install Linux on the system. But lo and behold, here we are.

One of the most exciting aspects of the PlayStation 3 is that it allows users to install an alternative operating system. You can’t overwrite Sony’s GameOS or access privileged resources, but you can ...

For those of you who managed to get your hands on a PS3 and not get shot in the process, you’re probably itching to use that big ass machine to do some fancy media playback—like Sony’s been hyping.

Can we get the hottest video game system from Christmas 2006 and turn it into a Linux box? You bet! If you're still thinking about video game systems as being just a wee bit more technologically ...

The PlayStation brand has been very loyal to the Linux operating system since the days of the PlayStation 2 and even now on the PlayStation 3. Sony has allowed the installation and running of the open ...

Sony giveth and Sony taketh away: When the company’s newest PlayStation 3 firmware update drops on April 1, it’ll remove a beloved feature once trumpeted as a system sale-maker. That’s right Linux ...

Sony releases news that the next software update for the PlayStation 3 games console "="" option"=""> that was present on PS3 systems before the launch of the slimline model. OK, most folks out there ...

Sony will remove the ability to install other operating systems, such as Linux, on the PlayStation 3 in an update on 1 April. The widely unused feature was most recently exploited by computer hacker ...

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 ...

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) ...