It is amazing that so many people still do not know that their own PS3 is one of the worlds best super PCs.  Generally folk don’t realize because they only use it to play games.  But with the power of the Linux Operating System your PS3 can be three times as powerful as your house computer.  Even with the installation process of linux being really easy, a number of PS3 owners are hesitant to take the leap.  Here is some benefits of installing Linux on your PS3.  So how to install Linux on PS3?

The method is quite easy.  After you have backed up all of your saved files, you can go on and format your hard drive.  Go to ‘System Settings’ then ‘Format use’.  You will be asked whether you want to format your drive.  Select ‘Yes’.  Now for the partition setting choose the ‘Custom’ setting.  This will permit you to distribute ten gigs to another operating system.

Yellow Dog Linux was specifically designed for your PS3 so this distribution should be the first one you need to look at when deciding on turning your PS3 into a home PC.  the majority of the Linux distributions, the most popular ones such as Yellow Dog Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Gentoo, will work fine with your PS3 console.  They will all offer home, office, and server applications, web browsers, email clients, and lots more.  Actually, the Yellow Dog Linux distribution comes with over 2,000 packages for you to enjoy.

Go forward and insert your Yellow Dog ISO disk into your PS3.  If you haven’t downloaded it already, just search the web and burn it to disk using something similar to Daemon Tools.  On your PS3 menu, go to “System Settings” once again then there should be an option to “Install Other OS”.  Clearly this is the option we want!  The system will then scan for Operating System images, and will find the disk.  All you’ve got to do is follow instructions provided on the screen.  If you want further help visit Linux PS3
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