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Sony Playstation 3 Gets FireFox
by Raj Patel on October 18, 2006

Terra Soft recently announced that they have developed Yellow Dog Linux v.50, a next generation linux operating system that will support the Playstation 3. Owen Stampflee, Lead Software Engineer of Terra Soft Solutions stated,

From the days of the Commodore 64 to modern overclocked and water cooled home computers, a battle has raged between dedicated game boxes and home computers for highest quality game play. PLAYSTATION 3 provides an industry first exceptional Linux OS experience … and Terra Soft the first Linux OS. I am proud to have played a part in this development.

What does this all mean? Well, you will get to download the following for your Playstation 3:

  • kernel 2.6.16
  • gcc 4.1.1 and glibc 2.4
  • Cell SDK 1.1
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
  • FireFox 1.5.0 and Thunderbird 1.5.0
  • Nautilus 2.14
  • A suite of Personal Accessories, Development Tools; Sound & Video, Internet, and Networking applications
  • There’s still no word on if FireFox will be PS3’s primary browser, but even if it’s not a lot of users will probably download it anyway.

    PS3 Gets FireFox [terra soft solutions]

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    • That’s awesome news! I prefer Firefox over IE and Opera. But I’m now using Flock, which will hopefully work in the final release on PS3 since its Firefox-based.

    • Good News!! Now we need a c# compiler that runs on the Lunix and the cell and we will be set.

      Give me an inch I take a mile….lol

    • will there be a web server built in?
      would be pretty slick to host on one of these.

    • a guy from toronto - October 19th, 2006 at 9:05 pm PDT

      hey this stuff looks pretty neat, I only wish I knew what they are, I never had a computer of my own to tamper with so I don’t know what all these things are. Tampering with the comp I have at home will make people mad at me. I’m looking forward to PS3, I’m crossing my fingers that it’s internet service isn’t severly restricted, then I can say I have a computer service of my very own.

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