Category: UNIX

Overview of the Open Platform for the PLAYSTATION®3 system

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

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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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!...