Run Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on PS3 - Tutorial

how to extract a file with linux?

 

Well really you can't do a whole lot new over any other OS, since its on PS3, you can't do anything that is 3D since Sony doesn't allow 3D applications to be used with Linux (yet). But with Ubuntu you can use Wine and install anything from Windows on it. The 1 reason i use the Linux OS, is because not that many people are using them and there are virtually no viruses. Unlike Windows, its very hard to create a file that can modify the Linux operating system. So stuff like spyware and adware is virtually non-exsistant on Ubuntu.

Heres a review someone wrote..

Just installed Ubuntu on my new laptop. Ubuntu, as you know, is the amazing alternative to Windows. It’s fun, it’s fast, it has no viruses. If you run Ubuntu all your software is free. As in you- don’t- even- have- to- pretend- you- actually- paid- money- for- it free. You simply tick boxes for the software you want and before you know it Ubuntu is downloading it all to your computer. Most if it is stuff you’ve already used on your Windows machine — Firefox, OpenOffice, Thunderbird. But it works even better with Ubuntu.

Dell started delivering Ubuntu-powered computers a few weeks ago. If Dell is doing it, you know the revolution is well under way.

It was always incomprehensible to me why people are so keen to enrich the richest man in the world. Ubuntu runs Linux started by a jovial Swede-Finn, Linus Torvalds. Who’s side are you on?

 

Is it easy to use? Someone told me that you have to do all ths coding or w.e. to run things and to shut it down, just simple commands like that. Is that true?

I'm not really good with that kind of stuff...

 

Nice guide im doing it now

 

To shutdown is as easy as Windows, to restart is as easy as Windows. Whoever told you that shutting down was that complicated must've been using CPM (oldest OS I've ever known, dates back to 1979). Yes you can shutdown using terminal codes and such but it's been simplified so don't worry. In fact, Ubuntu is easier to install than previous versions of Windows like XP, 2000 and older ones (vista finally made it simplified).

In fact, to install software such as Wine (emulator used to run Windows apps on Linux) Ubuntu has a software manager called "Synaptics Package Manager" which is as easy as using a P2P software such as Limewire. You just type what you want, wine in our case, and you get a bunch of results. If the name seems complicated (such as libwine, libwine_dev, wine_core, etc...) just read the description.

Just wait a couple of years and Linux will be the OS of choice. Also you can't run many Linux apps on it because the PS3 uses PPC architecture while a PC uses x86 which is the architecture used to run almost all apps/games on any OS.

Hope this all helped.

 

That coding is usually patching parts of the Linux system to make more things compatible. Most of it is third-party stuff and its an optional thing to people who know how to fully use Linux really. For example, Yellow Dog Linux on PS3 recently had a update from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1 to allow the built in PS3 wi-fi device to be used in Yellow Dog on PS3, this required users to manually patch specific parts of the system. Or you can just download the 5.0.1 .iso, burn it, and install it.

So really you might aswell ignore any of that coding stuff you find unless you have a good idea of what your doing. Ubuntu is excellent for everyday computer use.

 

With the PS3 Ubuntu usually you get archive files called tar.gz, basically the same as .rar or .zip on Windows/MAC. Just right-click and extract it like normal.

So really archives or compressed folders usually are .zip or .rar while in Ubuntu/Linux they can be tar.gz or .rpm or .deb.

 

it's a program called FileRoller and you can use it to extract .zip, .rar, .arj, .ace... basically any kind of archived file like WinRAR.

Oh and .rpm and .deb files are not archives, they're packages that usually contain an apps or something that can't be installed through a binary, like network drivers, and they're also used for system updates (not the ps3 system updates)

 

Ah ok, i knew they were pretty similar to archives though.

 

where do i got those plugs ..i download divx for linux but cant xtract them...can i use winrar?

 

i open them but can run it...

 

Let me guess... you just double clicked the file? You can't do that.

Press, at the top, System --> Administration --> Synaptics Package Manager and in the search box just type xvid. I said xvid not divx. You'll get plenty of results, look at the description of each and find the one that sounds like the core file to play divx movies.

 

Hello everyone. I am making a new guide for Ubuntu on your PS3, to be able display your Ubuntu in full screen in any way.

So you can display it in full screen with no borders in 480i/480p up to 1080p/1080i. And the guide will also modify your OS to have a graphical start up. Meaning none of the boring start up text you usually see when you press enter in the Kboot menu. It will be a nice start up.

 

what can you really do with this ubuntu linux?

 

Is it the other boot menu that's been in progress for a while? Sorry I can't be too specific cause I forgot about it.

Also if you have problems with the borders I found an easy way. Go to Terminal and type:

Code:

xvidtune

Then carefully mess around with options. It's automatically applied so you don't have to press Apply each time you make a change. But you have to do the same thing each time you restart your PS3.

 

Many people have asked but really too hard to answer. Just read up on it on Google.

 

How did you change the display resolution? Do you have to edit something in the config file? Right now mines stuck on 576x384.

BTW this guide worked perfect for me.

 

System->Preferences->Screen Resolution

Also that sounds like a PAL resolution, do you live in europe or somewhere around their? I can change the resolution on my SDTV though my resolution was default at 720x480 so I upped it to 800x600 (my tv can go to 1024x768 but it looks better at 800x600).

Also on my HDTV the default resolution was 1280x720 even though I set my EDID to report TV resolution to be 1920x1080. I just manually configured xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) to support 1920x1080 (under the section "Monitors") and presses Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X and voila, I could run at 1920x1080.

 

Nope NTSC US here. Booting from the Live CD, my resolution was at 1124x644. After I installed it and installed updates, my resolution is stuck at 576x384 when I go into System/Preferences/Screen Resolution.

BTW, I have an Panasonic HDTV 720P at 1024x768 connected through HDMI.

 

Go to terminal and type:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

When it asks for your password type in root's (admin) password. If you haven't set it go to

System->Administration->Users and Groups

and double click on the user "root" and just change the password. Then apply and retype the code and type your new root password.

Once the the text editor is opened search for the resolution that's currently set and change it to your desired resolution (don't change the refresh rate if there's an option to unless your TV can handle more than 60Hz). Save settings and close gedit. Then press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and the screen will black out and come back again and it should be set to your new resolution.