Linux on Playstation 3 looks good...

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There's nothing i can find about it not supporting the 3D hardware and when they released the Linux kit for the PS2 it supported an OpenGL implementation for the Graphics Synthesizer. I'd be very suprised if they didn't provide access, even if only via libs, for the hardware in the PS3.

Linux kit for PS2 did nothing good. Access to HW was too limited.

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Excuse me if im being mental, but how on earth does stopping direct access to the GPU for hardware 3d, stop people pirating games?

They dont want quality games appear without Sony license.

By this do they mean, they dont want people running pirated games on emulators?

Do you think Sony really cares about piracy? You can not boot from CD/DVD on unmodded PS2 unless you have applied copy protection to your disk. Of course there is only one company who can apply this copy protection and they ask money for this + royalties.