Linux on Playstation 3 looks good...

[Tomas]

Too bad you cannot use the 3d accelration under linux or any other third party OS.

[Tomas]

AJCopland wrote:

Tomas wrote:
Too bad you cannot use the 3d accelration under linux or any other third party OS.

What are you on about? Linux already has 3d acceleration, OpenGL specifically, it has desktop 3d hardware acceleration too, try doing a Google/YouTube search for "Compiz" to see it in action.

You obviously misunderstood me completely. I am using linux with hardware acceleration here..  The point is that Sony has blocked any third party OS from 3d acceleration, in the means of stopping people from using linux or other third party oses to pirate games and similar.

You would not get 3d acceleration even if you knew how to write a driver for the gfx chip.

[Tomas]

They dont want quality games appear without Sony license.

I agree.. i think the piracy issue is just an excuse. I also guess they dont want people to emulate older sony consoles, since they want to instead sell the games again.

[Tomas]

Won't PPC Linux allow us to emaulte the older systems (Amiga, Sega Genesis, Mame?)

Yes, that should work fine i think. I think there is already videos on youtube of ps3 running linux+snes emulator.
My guess is that it will be good for emulating anything upto the playstation.

[Tomas]

Why would you have to emulate, or re-buy old games? The PS3 plays most PS1/PS2 games already.

I have heard rumours about them offering downloads of psx similar to how Wii is doing it with n64 games.. With emulator you can play pirated games instead of buying a new..