Terra Soft selling 80GB PS3 with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed
By Danny Mendez
Terra Soft now sells the 80GB Playstation 3 with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed. Up until now, PS3 users had to install the third-party OS at home, but the move to sell units with Linux included should make it easy to get Yellow Dog into the home.
The addition to Terra Soft’s hardware line-up will also make it easier for researchers and scientists to order large quantities of Linux supercomputers that also happen to double as Warhawk gaming systems (for those after-work office LAN parties). Each machine comes stock except for the addition of Yellow Dog Linux, which comes pre-installed, and the Yellow Dog DVD set. You’ll need a separate USB keyboard and mouse, which doesn’t come with the package.
Though the 80GB Playstation 3 is a bit hard to find at traditional retail stores nowadays, it is still possible to grab one at Ebay for under $500. However, Terra Soft’s PS3 will run customers $550.00 and Yellow Dog can be downloaded for free online, so it’s not the most fiscal way approaching Linux on Sony’s console.
If Yellow Dog’s not your thing, the PS3 can also run other Linux distributions such as PSUbuntu, an Ubuntu flavor of Linux optimized for the PS3. Though free, PSUbuntu requires a manual, text-based install. Fedora is also installable, but it may turn out to be more of a headache than a blessing.
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April 16th, 2008
This is very good, that Terra Soft think about their users, but I’m afraid it will be very difficult to find it on the stores now. I hope I’ll find it on Ebay :)