I’m still debating whether or not I’ll install Ubuntu on the PS3. It sounds good in theory, but I’m not sold on the practice. The below, however, proposes a *very* interesting machine. Sony seems to be increasingly miss the mark in terms of selling the PS3 (while the Xbox 360 blasts along with BioShock and Halo 3) so this gives them, at the very least, a second angle of attack. Of course, Sony parent (including the twits in Entertainment) would probably kill it on concept…
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Sony released the 80GB PS3 configuration which seems completely pointless, from a user perspective. How about they release a special Linux edition that people would actually want:More RAM This RAM would be used in Linux mode only and wouldn’t be used by games. A dedicated Linux edition should ship with at least 1GB. Ideally, this would be user upgradeable as well.Larger Hard Disk 60GB is fine for regular game use and most media use. However, even though the drive is very easily upgradeable, if you want separate PS3 and Linux partitions, a larger default drive is probably a good idea.Optical Disc Writing Ideally this would write Blu-Ray discs, but if it merely read Blu-Ray and wrote CD/DVD, that would be fine.Linux This should obviously come with Linux preinstalled or at least pre-bundled.
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