I spent around 5 hours over the weekend installing Fedora Core 5 Linux on my PlayStation 3.
After getting myself a 120gb Fujitsu HDD from OverClockers.co.uk, I made a 10Gb partition for the ‘second OS’, and set about the installation process. It would’ve been quicker if I hadn’t downloaded the wrong 3.4Gb file first, oops. But once I had the v5 torrent it took 2 hours to download and about 2 and a half hours to install.
For a free operating system, it’s great. Looks a bit too bit on my 42” Sharp 1080p LCD but still. Fedora Core 5 and the PlayStation 3 add on disk that it comes with give you a desktop operating system that has everything you need out of the box, including: full Open Office applications, A few web browsers including FireFox 1.5 (upgradeable to 2.0), Mail clients, IRC clients, Graphics applications, Photo Applications, DVD/CD players plus a multitude of server and database applications and a whole load more. Basically, everything you’d need.
I mostly installed it out of curiosity but now curiosity is driving me to investigate upgrading to Fedora Core 6 and installing Beryl. Which is very pretty indeed.
Update: Ok. So I upgraded to Fedora Core 6 before learning that Beryl won’t run on it. Doh. That was a waste of time…
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Hi Tom,
Congrats on a really nice site.
I have just bought a uk ps3 and have a Japanese psp. When I try to register them the ps3 tells me that the psp needs to be updated. Problem is that I am using the latest release of psp firmware. Which is the Japanese version 3.11. Have sony decided to make psp region locked??
I know that you are not a sony rep, however you seem to be knowledgeable and I can’t seem to get an answer any where.
Many thanks
James Paynter
Posted 26 days 17 hours after the item.
Funnily enough I too have a Japanese PSP. It’s a white one from when they were first released in Japan.
I’ve had no problems syncing them up for Remote Play or data, and I’ve got firmware 3.11.
I’ve not registered the PSP via Account Management, but then again I’ve no need to. You only need to do that for downloading content directly to PSP (like PSone games) - and I didn’t have any trouble with that on the U.S Store.
Hmmm… Sorry - not sure I can help. Perhaps try formatting the memory stick and resetting the PSPs settings?
Tom Kiss
Posted 26 days 18 hours after the item.
have you tried to up date to 3.50 filmware on your psp it let me conect to my ps3 after the update or go to psphacks.com forum for advice
walshy
Posted 3 months and 24 days after the item.