Metroid_Hybrid
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I own a 1st-generation phat Playstation 3, and I am looking to squeeze the absolute maximum amount of utility out of it that I (reasonably) can..
Among the long list of features of the original PS3, the fact that an "OtherOS" can be natively installed on it has always fascinated me..
First off is the question of "which OS?" Linux is usually seen as the obvious choice, but that immediately begs the question: "which distribution of Linux?" "Yellow Dog" seems to have been developed specifically for the PS3, but I've seen more instances of people online going with one of the dozen or so other "distros" that are compatible with the PS3 according to https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Distributions ..
It is also worth noting that I have ZERO experience with (at least pure) Linux, and that the "PC" that I would be transferring stuff from (via thumb drive) is an older Mac OS X..
Considering that this is technically a 20 year old piece of hardware, is there a valid use for doing this? I am aware that there is (currently) no way to access 100% of the processing power of the PS3 this way, and therefore running Linux-based gaming is somewhat of a "fool's errand." Learning how to mess with PS3 homebrew sounds neat, but I also don't know anything about coding. Which leads me to another possibility; what about an Amiga OS? I have access to an "Amiga OS 3.1 Preconfigured Workbench" with a bunch of games, but I've also seen through a cursory search that Amiga OS 4.1 can be ran on the PS3 as well. In both cases it seems that I need to start from a Linux OS anyway. This brings us back to the original question: which version of Linux would be optimal for this? And from there, which version of Amiga OS? (If I go that route)..
Among the long list of features of the original PS3, the fact that an "OtherOS" can be natively installed on it has always fascinated me..
First off is the question of "which OS?" Linux is usually seen as the obvious choice, but that immediately begs the question: "which distribution of Linux?" "Yellow Dog" seems to have been developed specifically for the PS3, but I've seen more instances of people online going with one of the dozen or so other "distros" that are compatible with the PS3 according to https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Distributions ..
It is also worth noting that I have ZERO experience with (at least pure) Linux, and that the "PC" that I would be transferring stuff from (via thumb drive) is an older Mac OS X..
Considering that this is technically a 20 year old piece of hardware, is there a valid use for doing this? I am aware that there is (currently) no way to access 100% of the processing power of the PS3 this way, and therefore running Linux-based gaming is somewhat of a "fool's errand." Learning how to mess with PS3 homebrew sounds neat, but I also don't know anything about coding. Which leads me to another possibility; what about an Amiga OS? I have access to an "Amiga OS 3.1 Preconfigured Workbench" with a bunch of games, but I've also seen through a cursory search that Amiga OS 4.1 can be ran on the PS3 as well. In both cases it seems that I need to start from a Linux OS anyway. This brings us back to the original question: which version of Linux would be optimal for this? And from there, which version of Amiga OS? (If I go that route)..
