Sony PS3 gets jailbroken to run Linux
Hell hath no fury like an angry open sourceror.
WHEN THE GAMES CONSOLE MAKER Sony decided to stop people from running Linux on its Playstation 3 it made a lot of open sourcerors quite angry.
It also killed off a growing industry among those who were wiring PS3s together to make themselves some rather natty supercomputer clusters.
Now it seems that someone has come up with a clever idea that allows you to run Linux on your PS3 without voiding the warranty.
According to PSX Scene a bunch of open source hardware hackers have released a dongle called PS Jailbreak that will turn the PS3 back into a Linux machine.
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