BattZ Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 I'm sure many people have read about being able to cluster playstation 3's into a semi-supercomputer. Then Sony pushed a firmware to disable loading on other OS's. I've read that if you don't update the firmware you would still be able to load linux on. So my question is has there been a hack to allow this again, or if anyone know if you buy some new ones, if they come with the latest firmware, or if they come with the basic firmware without the update? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/904...mp;pageNumber=1 For those unaware of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wh1t3 and n3rdy Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 The slim ps3 have never been able to have Linux installed afaik, you will need a fat model, that has not been updated, though I do recall hearing that some people have been working on this. Sony has provided the military a custom firmwar to allow them to continue using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattZ Posted August 2, 2010 Author Share Posted August 2, 2010 Sony has provided the military a custom firmwar to allow them to continue using it. Ooo, I haven't heard that. I have heard that some people have been working on this, but that was just in comments, but I haven't been able to find an actual site on it. I heard the air force bought 2200 PS3's for this type of thing, It would suck for them if they weren't able to continue using it because of a firmware update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wh1t3 and n3rdy Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 They did buy the older ones from memory and still utilise it, if I can find the article regarding the custome firmware I will post a link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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