Re: [ps2hacking-devel] Re: PS2 Linux for US press release

[Julian T. <lo...@cr...>]

well it ain't compatible your machine, your machine is pal scee, like all
from euro, the america kit won't work for you because it is ntsc scea, and
the jap won't work because it is ntsc scei, 

eg you will have to want for the eur kit like me.

well you can get around this limitation.

first of all the xbox is going to have a 8 gb hard drive
down graded from 10, and secondly does 30 meg really that bad.. only when
running bloat ware like windows does GBs of memory are required..

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, hw...@sy... wrote:

> SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc will launch a Linux-enabled version of its PlayStation 2 in the U.S. market, an executive from the company said Monday.
> 
> Is it just bad wording and did they mean to say that Sony
> will launch a version of Linux for it's PS2? What they actually
> said was that they will launch a ~version~ of PS2 for the US
> market which will be Linux enabled, whatever that means!
> Does that imply that existing US versions of PS2's won't run it?
> 
> Notice that it doesn't say they will release the PS2 linux kit for
> US PS2's... so this could mean an cdrom/dvdrom only version of a
> product or an entirely new PS2 variant, perhaps with a built-in HD
> to compete with X-box.... A hard-diskless PS2 Linux doesn't make
> sense, and as most of the world's PS's don't have hard drives, they 
> will have to address that issue, probably by bundling a HD with
> the kit. Early PS2's with PCMCIA slots would require the slower
> PCMCIA-IDE interface (non 32 bit cardbus) ext HDs. In any case this puts
> it in the 200-300$ price point, well above Microsoft's offering ($300US)
> which includes now a 20 Gb HD (downgraded from 40 Gb)...
> assuming no pre-Christmas price drops, ie ~$300USPS2+~$200US HD.
> For that price range, I'd rather see a 128Mb ram machine 
> (32 Mb is really too little!) with a GS containing >4Mb video RAM.
> 
> I'm not sure how the wording was for the announced German 
> release...but it might be similarly deceptive. Any have a link?
> 
> Interesting will be if Sony actually fully "productizes" a Linux 
> distribution with upgrades and support, instead of "as-is" like
> the buggy Japanese PS2-Linux  Kit which sold for $207US (but
> was widely scalped for $300-$800US on Ebay and Chinese stores.)
> 
> The major issue you will have to deal with for the Australian machine
> will be the region code.  A US region code 1 DVD disk may not work
> on a region code 4 machine. In addition to the usual Sony proprietary
> authenication scheme on all legit PS2 CDs and DVDs, the Japanese 
> PS2 Linux does not work on a US PS2. I don't know if any of the
> many bogus modchips (int or ext) or swap trick will work around this.
> 
> 
>   im worried about shelling out for the kit and it not being compatible at all with my machine. its a scph-30002 its australian, what do you guy think?
>