Who said so? Again you're just babling. As for who wanted the OtherOS to be there, I bet it wasnt Sony in the first place. More likely it was IBM.
But again - that is beside the point.
Babbling? I think its a pretty solid remark. To think the console, a VIDEO GAME console, was designed and planned out with Other OS's on it being the top priority, isn't very reasonable. The Playstation is, and will always be, games first, other stuff second. You ever see any of the conferences focusing on OMGLINUX? No. Pretty sure the key emphasis was the gaming platform.
... but that was also not the point. Nice to see that you admit that you dont give two shits about facts, btw. I suppose that is transferable to other postings you make as well?
No, you misunderstand. I give a shit about facts, and am not saying that page is wrong. I just don't go scour wikipedia for factoids to copy pasta into forums to make it look like Im more knowledgeable. Especially because the link you posted about OtherOS wasn't really anything of importance.
Ah, you need to post on those "we want AmigaOS on PS3" threads. It's not correct to say that "it's mostly a hobby/tinkering sort of thing", that is what the PS3 and Cell is mostly useless for. What is _is_ usable for though, is running dedicated code for various number crunching, something hobby/tinkerers have no use for. And this is also what the PS3 has been used for in a few academic scenarious.
its still tinkering no matter how you want to slice it...academia isn't commercial. and, by "hobby" , I am referring to hobby game development. It's a novel idea, but it was limited from the get-go. And uhhhh who are you to say hobbyists/tinkerers don't have a use for running dedicated number crunching algorithms, etc.? You got some surveillance on the entire PS3 development community?
Development under Linux on it was always legit.
My bad, "official". The fully licensed development kit is worlds better than the goofy nonsense you can do with a basement Linux install.
I will, up yours.
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm not into that. I'm sure you'll find someone who is though!
Really, you're missing the entire point here - which wasnt whether the PS3 sucks for running Linux on, or doing development on. The point is that they advertised and sold it also as a developer machine for Cell with Linux as a platform. Peraps this was under preasure from IBM, but that is not really relevant. They are now in effect pulling that option, and alot of people will be pissed about it, and rightfully so.
Lol, you underestimate people and their determination. I won't be surprised when Linux reappears on PS3 sometime in the future either by retracting the kill from Sony (once they get security under control), or by someones brute force. Most likely, the someone will be Geohot again. You did read the information right? Dude's already planning to work around it. Welcome to the world of hackers..?
and I really think the advertising in regards to linux was a nice afterthought. Didn't seem to be the emphasis, ever.
And, if you've been paying attention, you'd notice that I see Sony's move as a positive thing, since it will only hurt Sony, which I, personally, think is great. :laughing:
Oh, so you're one of those biased Anti-Sony people. That explains a lot.
May I again point to Wikipedia, even though you dont give a crap, maybe others do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
Right, you are aware that there is a difference between Cell in a ps3, and cell at large right? By "They" I mean, Sony. With the PS3. The platform we are discussing here. Im sure all of the plans for OTHER applications of Cell besides games were planned with DIFFERENT hardware in mind. Not a video game console. Hell its the second paragraph of the article. Did you read it at all? Or... did you just assume it agreed 100% with what you were thinking and blindly pasted it here.
Personally, I treat consoles as gaming appliances nothing more. If they happen to be able to do other things, take it as a bonus but expect that the copyright owner can at any time take their toys away making the system unusable for those things.
Exactly.
