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[Naked Snake]

Never really thought about this before, but now I'm curious... What can you actually do with Linux on PS2? Can you install new applications? Any good/popular examples? And how would you do that?

PS. I never used Linux before.

 

[Raistlin]

You can use it like any other Linux-based PC. Granted, its not all that fast. but it works pretty good.

There are shells you can install to make it appear to run pretty similar to Windows - at least at the high level.

 

[Panajev2001a]

You can run ScummVM on your TV, you can have fun programming the PlayStation 2 (well, after a good dose of punishment this console gives out ), etc...

 

[megateto]

Can it be used to play PS2 games on a monitor?

 

[Panajev2001a]

Can it be used to play PS2 games on a monitor?

You could use the VGA cable adaptor for compatible monitors, but I have never tested it and playing PlayStation 2 games on PC monitors is not the kit's intended purpose.

This kit is IMHO very important: it is the first cheap (Net Yaroze was much more expensive) Homebrew SDK with quite good support from the console manufacturer (online and off-line thanks to playstation2-linux.com and the tutorials and manuals available on the DVD's) that allows just about any of us to learn how the console works (EE and GS are fully documented) and to make games for it in a way very similar to how real developers do with their development kits (if you use the SPS2 library which allows you to program at the low level, being in control of the DMA controller and having all registers exposed gives you a good deal of flexibility).

Net Yaroze might have cost a lot more, but IMHO PlayStation 2 Linux is much better of an initiative and I hope they will release a PlayStation 3 Linux kit .

 

[megateto]

I know it's not what the kit is supposed to do, but some of have crappy tvs (playing in a 14" telly is just a nightmare) and not so crappy monitors.

But thanks anyway... could you check how it goes with progressive games and with non-progressive ones?

 

[ourumov]

Only progressive enabled games would work. Those without progressive output won't work unless you hack them (and they make use of a full rear frame buffer).
Anyways you require a monitor that supports SOG in order to be able to see something on the screen...And trust me it isn't so frequent...

I own two Sony trinitron CRTs and non of them actually has SOG, and the same happens to Panajev and his set.