Sunday, June 12th, 2005, 3:53 am
Playstation and Linux
The hard-drive peripheral in for the Playstation 3 will run Linux. This news is by no means surprising as Sony’s direct opponent in the realm of home gaming is Microsoft. This news item, as usual, opens the door to common jokes (snippet from my post at Slashdot):
Who wouldn’t buy the Playstation 3, even just to play a game that no-one can resist: compiling the Linux kernel. That sure can keep one up until 5 AM.
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Salesman: Here you see the latest Xbox which renders a zillion polygons per second.
Customer: Does it come with
gcc
?Salesman: Is that one of the latest patches?
Customer: *sign* Not interested…