Yellow Dog Linux free version officially released!
All those who’ve just got a PS3 for Christmas and are thinking of installing Fedora Core, stop! Terrasoft has released the free version of Yellow Dog Linux. While you might be wondering that Fedora Core is much more popular, I’d advise you to go with Yellow Dog Linux because it is based on Fedora Core itself. Secondly, and much more importantly, it is very much optimised for the PS3, since it’s specially made for it.
So now that you know about it, how would you go about installing it on your PS3? If you’re new, you can just skip over to the download and further instructions section. For all the newbies who’ve just learned of this, I’ll give you some info which will lay down the basics for you.
To install a second operating system on your PS3, you will need the following:
- A PLAYSTATION 3 with a Hard Disk (20GB is fine).
- USB Keyboard, USB Mouse.
- A USB Storage Device.
- An ISO of the desired Linux distro.
- Sony PS3 Other OS Installer.
- OtherOS.bld file for the respective distro.
- Blank optical media + burner.
- Other things which will be specific to every distro.
Once you have these things ready, the next step is to format your PS3’s internal hard disk and install Sony‘s OtherOS bootloader. Thankfully, TerraSoft also provided a nicely written install guide for everyone. I’d advise you to follow it. In case any of you run into problems, you can check out our PS3 Linux forums for help where other like-minded members will be happy to help you out.
Now for the download links to the required stuff:
Sony PS3 Other OS Installer
otheros.bld for Yellow Dog Linux ( here / here )
Yellow Dog Linux 5 ISO image ( here / here ) (3.3GB ISO!)
Install guide for Yellow Dog Linux ( here / here )
Now that you have the required stuff, the first thing you should do is go through the install guide a couple of times. In case you don’t understand any step, make sure to ask in the forums for clarification. If you’re not lucky enough to have a Hi-def TV yet, we do have a guide to install Yellow Dog Linux on SDTVs.
Bear in mind that our wiki is still in its infancy and as such, won’t be complete. We’d love it if you might want to fill it up with how-tos, instructions, or anything else you have in mind. We will be officially launching it sometime in the near future, so if you’d wait until then, no worries. Also, thanks to mussadek from our forums for the heads-up!
View: [How-to: Yellow Dog Linux on SDTV (Thanks to sincebydarren from our forums!)]
View: [PS3 Linux forums]
Download: [Otheros.bld for Yellow Dog Linux]
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All those who’ve just got a PS3 for Christmas and are thinking of installing Fedora Core, stop! Terrasoft has released the free version of Yellow Dog Linux. While you might be wondering that Fedora Core is much more popular, I’d advise you to go with Yellow Dog Linux because it is based on Fedora Core itself. Secondly, and much more importantly, it is very much optimised for the PS3, since it’s specially made for it.
So now that you know about it, how would you go about installing it on your PS3? If you’re new, you can just skip over to the download and further instructions section. For all the newbies who’ve just learned of this, I’ll give you some info which will lay down the basics for you.
To install a second operating system on your PS3, you will need the following:
- A PLAYSTATION 3 with a Hard Disk (20GB is fine).
- USB Keyboard, USB Mouse.
- A USB Storage Device.
- An ISO of the desired Linux distro.
- Sony PS3 Other OS Installer.
- OtherOS.bld file for the respective distro.
- Blank optical media + burner.
- Other things which will be specific to every distro.
Once you have these things ready, the next step is to format your PS3’s internal hard disk and install Sony‘s OtherOS bootloader. Thankfully, TerraSoft also provided a nicely written install guide for everyone. I’d advise you to follow it. In case any of you run into problems, you can check out our PS3 Linux forums for help where other like-minded members will be happy to help you out.
Now for the download links to the required stuff:
Sony PS3 Other OS Installer
otheros.bld for Yellow Dog Linux ( here / here )
Yellow Dog Linux 5 ISO image ( here / here ) (3.3GB ISO!)
Install guide for Yellow Dog Linux ( here / here )
Now that you have the required stuff, the first thing you should do is go through the install guide a couple of times. In case you don’t understand any step, make sure to ask in the forums for clarification. If you’re not lucky enough to have a Hi-def TV yet, we do have a guide to install Yellow Dog Linux on SDTVs.
Bear in mind that our wiki is still in its infancy and as such, won’t be complete. We’d love it if you might want to fill it up with how-tos, instructions, or anything else you have in mind. We will be officially launching it sometime in the near future, so if you’d wait until then, no worries. Also, thanks to mussadek from our forums for the heads-up!
View: [How-to: Yellow Dog Linux on SDTV (Thanks to sincebydarren from our forums!)]
View: [PS3 Linux forums]
Download: [Otheros.bld for Yellow Dog Linux]
Digg This? Click Here!
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