Bringing Science to PS3

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Fakesight

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Hi to those that read this.
I have been trying to find out how to bring the miniconda/anaconda to the PS3 so that I can run some science bioinformatics pipelines from my study, rather than exhausting my laptop 24/7. (I use servers as well but I can not resist trying to blow life back into this beautiful old PS3).

The anaconda environment installers and everything are amazing but run on windows, linux, freebsd, macOS.
So I read in the meantime, and also have been trying to figure how stable this is etc...internet is an amazing place....

However I need more insight and perhaps opinions about the following:

To those who have installed linux on the PS3, I am trying to figure out for my model (Slim and v.4.82) if I need to jailbreak it first before being able to install another linux OS. I am trying to search for the best tutorials on these forums for my PS3 model however can not really figure out which tutorial and OS are recommended. (honestly just figuring out today that these ps3 communities are still around blew my mind, people really are amazing, you all deserve much credit lol)

Someone keen to advice me which tutorial and method you think are the best and stable today? A lot that I read and find seem to be outdated and contain links of info not working anymore. A bit lost unfortunately...especially how a lot of reads slam the slim models over de fatty ones.

Please experts recommend me your opinion?

I would to do the analysis later on and report about it so you can see if it was worthile or not btw. I'm super curious.
 
Well, all Slim and SuperSlim models were not designed to support OtherOS (and thus, Linux) out of the box as those models were released after the OtherOS support was dropped.

There were some efforts to bring OtherOS back (OtherOS++, AsbestOS), but it's not very stable and have its quirks.

Also, you can only try this approach if you can install CFW on your Slim (models 2000, 2100, and some 2500 with factory FW 3.40).
 
For me, I was using 80GB Slim model CECH-2501A when installing Red Ribbon Linux

Tesla is correct about OtherOS discontinuation, in my case I had to write it to flash using petitboot installer

Some early slim models like he said may have factory OFW of 3.40 but I am not thinking they all do

https://www.psx-place.com/threads/t...bon-linux-on-rebug-4-81-2-4-84-2-d-rex.16419/

^This one in particular should only be done on DEX consoles I believe.

When installing RR Linux on my Slim I had to downgrade from 4.84.2 D-REX to 4.81.2 D-REX , then add petitboot to PS3 where you have to use a keyboard and find the path of the Linux build and install it to your PS3 as OtherOS.

There are many other builds like YellowDog or Ubuntu but I do not know much beyond how to install the one I use.

CEX version of RR Linux is also provided in the thread I linked should you want to install it.

 
Thank you both @GuilloteTesla @SKEPTiCK. Precisely what I needed, such a pity that the video as well mentions that it did not work as hoped for...If there weren't so much glitchy and quirky arguments against the whole ordeal I would have done it. Need to think about it for now unfortunately but thank you both for your insight!
 
You are welcome. My advice is that you try to get a second hand PS3 FAT model, so you can downgrade the FW to 3.15 and install OtherOS with full support.
 
3.16 was last fw with official OOS support.

On current CFW, there is OOS+. Not so easy to install as in official way because there is no XMB menu for that, but not much different.

What no one will tell You because no one really care about Linux and the scene simultaneously (two separate worlds ;]) is where this stuff going to be installed. So I recommend to read this thread first which will give You some insight (You will face the same problam with Petitboot): https://www.psx-place.com/threads/bootloaders-doesnt-see-usb-and-dvd.39650/
 
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