Category: UNIX

Overview of the Open Platform for the PLAYSTATION®3 system

by [email protected] | Mar 30, 2010 | Hardware, Linux, Nintendo, Open Source, Sony, Technology, Ubuntu, University, UNIX, World | 1 |

Thought I would re-post a soon to be non-existent feature of the original PS3. ————————————— There is more to the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer...

Sony to remove Linux option from PS3 is either a PR April fools joke ever or the worst move ever?

by [email protected] | Mar 29, 2010 | Amiga, BeOS, BSD, Google, Hardware, Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Solaris, Technology, UNIX | 1 |

I heard today that Sony plans on removing the “other OS” option from their systems. What was more shocking was their supposed reason for removing this feature. Now I have a PS3 and I personally think it is one of the...

The end run around the OS is underway

by [email protected] | Aug 19, 2008 | BeOS, BSD, Canada, Dell, Google, Linux, Microsoft, Netbooks, Novell, Open Source, Red Hat, Solaris, Technology, Ubuntu, UNIX | 0 |

The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could argue that the operating system–Linux, OS X and Windows–will become an application that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are on to the OS’s...

At What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell?

by [email protected] | May 12, 2008 | Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Open Source, Solaris, Sun, UNIX | 0 |

Microsoft no longer sees itself as simply a Windows company. One recent indication of this is their determination to buy the LAMP-centric (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Yahoo! Instead of migrating all the tried and tested Yahoo!...