OT- Games, gamers, and gaming machines

[Al Gordon]

On 12/2/05, ulrich steffens <ulrich at barfuss-jerusalem.org> wrote:
> though there is not much info about the ps3 to find, sony said you could
> upgrade the ps3 with a harddisk and this hdd would have linux on it.
> so a ps3 with keyboard, mouse AND linux could be a nice alternative to a
> pc, i think. but lets wait and see whats actually gonna happen.

Since we're being off-topic and all:  I don't think I'm going to buy
anything from Sony again, after their recent spyware fiasco.  The PS3
might have Linux under the hood, or a magic genie - it'd make no
difference to me.

Now, stepping off of *that* particular soap box -- why whould it
matter that it runs Linux?  It's an appliance - it's designed for
gaming, not for word processing or to be a file server.  And, if it's
going to be plugged into a TV instead of a computer monitor, it's
going to be crap as a PC, unless you like working at incredibly low
screen resolutions.

(Apologies in advance if my tone seems adversarial - I don't really mean it to.)

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  -- AL --