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Sorry I couldn't post on the gaming side of this story because I don't play them (well actually XBoard, Dopewars, and XBill I'll admit it) so forgive my gratuitous post )

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On its own, its nothing more than a novelty (Runix) but when you have hundreds of different creations all in one place, I think it strenghtens the notion that Linux and others like it should be looked into more often, as opposed to dumping money buying, or leasing for that matter (*cough XP*) software when it's freely available. The site of course would be a non profit site sort of like a Source Forge, where developers could post their latest work, which could be referred to in trade shows, LinuxWorld Expo's etc., so Fortune 500's could see all of the neat things that could be done from this OS (Linux) and others like it. I got to thinking about people who have neat ideas like this, Runix, NewOS, AtheOS, etc., and I wonder about how this helps the community (showing the different ways Linux is being used, etc) and thought about someone creating the all in one marketing site for Linux to show how many different configurations, installations you could create with it. This could be the start of lots of free-software games releases ported to the PS. The user may not even know they were running linux at all. I expect a bootable linux CD could be set up to go straight into a game from init. When someone says that linux runs on the PS, don't automatically think that they are talking about a complete GNU/Linux system together with all the usual shells and servers etc. This would be ideal for people wanting to send copies of their summer party video to their friends, none of whom own a pc, but all who have playstations. In other words, an alternative to DVD that plays on any PS and is easily copied and distributed.

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eg, many open source linux games can now be ported to the PS much more easily since all the neccesary linux libs etc will be available.Īlso off the top of my head: With just linux, a framebuffer driver for the PS, an opendivx codec and a bit of work, it shouldn't be too hard to get a bootable linux based cd whose sole purpose is to play back the divx thats also recorded to the cd. Just off the top of my head, I would say there is a lot you can do. > Why on Earth would I want to run Linux on my PS2? Would you like a Python based alternative to PHP/ASP/JSP? It might very well be the pro-c compilers for Irix give me the edge and with GCC I wouldn't see much of a performance gain over a normal ia32 system. Strangely enough those little machines are designed to maintain a fairly intense sustained level of io/cpu internaly without keeling over. Now, if I can use 13-14 playstation2's in a small cluster to get similar results (even close) would be MUCH MUCH MUCH more cost effective than a Origin class server. I believe that the reason the SGI machine does so well is because of the internal bandwidth and system architecture, not so much the CPU speed.

Also I can have up to four concurrent conversions happening at one time and keep that conversion rate.

On the Irix machine we have we can do the same conversion less than. (I use Image magick, there are probably better things out there). Most of the images on the fastest PC's I can get my hands on happen in around 2 seconds. The problem I have right now is that the image conversions have to happen on demand and in real time (well, there is a user waiting).

We use a simple cluster of XMLRPC servers to handle image conversion requests and the data is transfered over simple NFS style filesystems. I believe it wouldn't take much work to port those libraries to the PS2. In our business we use MIPS based SGI equipment for doing image manipulation.

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