Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 Hands-on
November 30, 2006 – Right from its announcement, Sony always proclaimed that the PlayStation 3 would be more than a simple gaming console. It had always said the same thing about the PlayStation 2, dubbed a Computer Entertainment System by the company, though this time it’s a great deal more serious about it. At the unveiling during its E3 2005 press conference, Sony stated that it would ship Linux pre-installed on the PlayStation 3’s hard disc drive. While that (and numerous other things) changed before its release, the system does still support Linux – you just have to install it yourself.
A few months ago, Terra Soft Solutions announced that its Yellow Dog Linux would be the first officially supported flavor of the OS to run on the PS3. Other flavors do in fact work just as well, but Terra Soft is indeed the first company to fully push its support, so that’s what we’ve installed.
It’s worth noting that everything in this article, including the images, was created and posted solely from within Yellow Dog on the PS3.
