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Has anyone got, or is anyone considering getting, the newly-released (22 May) Playstation Linux? From what I can see, it's a complete PC-type machine for about £385 (£199 for a PS2 + £185 for the Linux kit). It'll make it worthwhile for me to get a PS2, then!

Get a normal keyboard. Any USB will do.

As for the arch, I think it's abit secret. It shoudl be RISC, but the CPU was designed specifically for the PS2.

> I saw it on scee.uk.com a couple of months back but nothing was said.
> They said £150 apparently

It is scee that's supplying it. It's at www.linuxplay.com for sale in Europe. Cost is £155 + VAT (£182.13 inc VAT).

(BTW, the "Any Key" was apparently on the old Gateway keyboards, so there may have actually been one!)

Now, I may be rather thick here asking this again, but what's the PS2 architecture again? The clock speed is quoted as ca 300 MHz (on one of the Xbox comparison forum posts), but naturally there's no mention of the architecture. Multithreaded RISC or what? Oh, and bus speed?

Sadly they've chosen to give us all American keyboards. But you can remap the keyboard to your own liking. Still, the US keyboard is one key short of international ones. And that key is... the backslash!

Saying Linux is more advanced than Net Yaroze is like saying a Mazzirati 3200GT is more advanced than a two-stroke lawn mower. Linux is far more advanced than even Windows, you can code anything with the PS2/Linux kit.

Far in advance of the Net Yaroze, Sonic - far, far in advance.

I assume the Linux box is the equivalent of the Yaroze Black Playstations that saw a welcome return to bedroom coding? Perhaps I'll pick one up after I do my computer science degree... ie. if 4/5 years!

Sonic

I'm a Debian man myself. I first started on Linux last November with Linux Mandrake. I hated it. Now I'm on Debian, which is just fantastic.

I'm currently running the 2.4.17 kernel+prrempt, yet long overdue for an upgrade to 19. My GUI is GNOME 1.4, although I'm compiling the very latest badass bleeding-edge GARNOME as we speak.

Linux has indeed a lot going for it. I personally think that oo.o is better than Microsoft Office, cross-platform too. Galeon is just THE best browser available, a damnsight better than Opera and a damnsight freer too. Xchat is the greatest IRC client, Quanta kicks everything as far as code editors go, vim is just pure genius, and GNOME/KDE are infinitely quicker and prettier than even WindowsXP. All this for the price of a few month's hard graft? Thank you.

I can't wait to get enough for my Linux PS2. The only thing I'm worried abotu though is the 2.2.x kernel. It's ancient! I'll have to get APT running on it too... not that I don't compile anything. Half my software is CVS!

Linux .. on PS2 .... sounds good.

But no advertisnig, nothing! Does SR have it? I like the sound of it.

I saw it on scee.uk.com a couple of months back but nothing was said. They said £150 apparently

Well, I was wondering if anyone had PS Linux, though seeing the average posting level on here, I suspect Linux is beyond the level of intellect of most readers/posters here.

My favourite distro's been Slackware, been using it since about kernel 0.96. Sadly over the years, verious things have forced my hand to turn my great Linux powerhouses into NT boxes :(

But things are turning back into Linux's favour. OpenOffice.org is one, downloaded it over the weekend, and it's VERY powerful for a free office suite (or for that matter, compared to M$ Office!) And it's multi-platform.


Old Turbonutter wrote (from OI! LORDKAIN! thread):
> You likey Linux? Me likey Linux.
>
> Talk to me about it, so we can share in-jokes and talk about kernels,
> GUIs and stuff. Join me here or the Web Forum.
>
> What distro have you got?

Has anyone got, or is anyone considering getting, the newly-released (22 May) Playstation Linux? From what I can see, it's a complete PC-type machine for about £385 (£199 for a PS2 + £185 for the Linux kit). It'll make it worthwhile for me to get a PS2, then!