[mythtv-users] PS3 to come with full Linux

[Jo Shields]

Ivan Kowalenko wrote:

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>On May 15, 2006, at 22.06, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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>>Byron Poland writes:
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>>>Saw this link of digg....
>>>http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=460365&st=0
>>>Of course this begs the question... PS3 as ultimate HD Mythtv  
>>>frontend?*
>>>*assuming you can get myth ported to the cell processor and  
>>>graphics to work.
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>>Before you get excited, find someone who can read Japanese.
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>>Just because the word "Linux" occurs in a middle of Japanese text  
>>that ostensibly discusses the PS3, it does not mean that PS3 is  
>>going to run Linux.
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>But we can hope, and dream! ;) I hope, for Sony's sake, that they do  
>include Linux, because you just know that people are going to try to  
>hack it for homebrew purposes, and unless they allow homebrew in an  
>appropriate sandbox (IE keeping the software separate from the  
>onboard APIs, to help prevent circumvention of Sony's anti-game- 
>piracy systems), they're just begging for someone to rip them a new  
>security hole.
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