Now that some people (or at least GeoHot) had started to being able to hack the PS3 a bit due to the use of the "Other OS" feature on the PS3, i think that it makes sense why Sony decides to remove this feature now. It definitely sucks for those who use "Other OS" on the PS3 for other reasons besides hacking the PS3 though, but if this "Other OS" feature makes it possible to play pirated games on the PS3, then i can see why Sony decides to remove this feature.
Does anyone here uses the "Other OS" feature on their PS3 by the way? Doesnt Linux run pretty slow on a PS3? I havnt tried it myself yet, but from the videos that i have seen, it didnt look like Linux ran particulary fast, at least compared to how Linux runs on a PC. It was maybe 2 years since i saw those videos though, so maybe Linux runs faster on a PS3 now. And is there any advantages for running Linux on a PS3 compared to running Linux on a PC? I know that the PS3 does calculations pretty well due to the Cell CPU, but for "private use" (or what i shall call it), are there any advantages?
The military and the universities etc. that uses PS3s for research and calculations, will they be affected by this PS3 firmware upgrade? I guess that the way that these PS3s are being used, they dont use PSN, so i guess that they dont need to do this firmware update, or am i mistaken?
Luckily for me, i have so to say no use for the "Other OS" feature, so this firmware update wont affect me
I have had a PS3 for about 2 years now and i still havnt tried the "Other OS" feature, so i guess that the chances were pretty small that i would ever use the "Other OS" feature. If i should have tried it, then it would mostly likely only had been for fun, just to have tried it out and see how it works. I cant really think of any reasons why i need Linux on my PS3 at least.
shagg_187 said:
Oh and to add to this; What's next: Firmware update 3.22: Removing PS2 backward compatibility from older PS3s?? :lol
Hehe, who knows?
I guess that you are just kidding, but to answer seriously; unless the PS2 backward compability from older PS3s is a security risk (as using/exploiting the PS2 backward compability to hack the PS3), i dont think that Sony needs to remove the PS2 backward compability. I guess that the only reason for why Sony decides to remove the "Other OS" feature is because that it can be used to hack the PS3. This doesnt seem to be the case with the PS2 backward compability, so i dont think that Sony needs to remove this