Opening Up the PlayStation 2 with Linux [O’Reilly]
Mar 25, 2002 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — viewsHoward Wen reveals details about Linux for PlayStation 2, Release 1.0 in an article at O'Reilly Network. Wen reports . . .
“While Linux has been brought to other consoles (such as the SEGA Dreamcast) by hobbyist programmers in the Linux community, this is the first distribution officially released, sold, and supported by a major hardware manufacturer for its game console. Since the demonstration of the kit in January this year at LinuxWorld, over four thousand people have registered at the Linux for PlayStation 2 Community Web site.”
“. . . it will include a Linux distribution on DVD that runs on the PS2 hardware, additional software, documentation, a 40GB hard drive, an Ethernet adapter, a USB mouse, a USB keyboard, and a computer monitor cable. The package will cost $200.”
“The PlayStation 2-specific libraries will be released under the LGPL; there are no proprietary licenses involved. Sony's distribution of Linux is based on Kondara Linux, which in turn is based on Red Hat Linux . . .”
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