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lol. Mike - being on the PS3 if anything, is likely to make it *less* user install/config friendly

Laugh all you want, it does not change the fact that all PS3s out there have very similar configurations and is thus relatively far more easier to optimise and set up for distro managers.

However when set up the fonts were far too small, icons and such were far too small for a HDTV viewing from the couch. That's easily fixed but is IMO rather amateurish, then Wi-Fi wasn't working properly with WEP, a tiny bug everyone's Dog was experiencing, so almost feels intentional as one little test could have spotted that one. On the PC it's usually assumed people just use a keyboard and mouse for everything, it should have been a trivial task to include a PS3 controller setup out of the box in addition (as an alternative for keyboard / mouse and for gaming, but no you'll have to add it manually in a too cumbersome way...), SPE scaler utility (again manually), etc, etc.

Why doesn't Fixstar just provide one large repository with all the stuff the bulk of PS3 YDL people are interested in? OK, it's a good way to tease people and get familiar with Linux and better appreciate conveniences on other platforms (including AmigaOS), but I think a lot of people will just give up too quickly.

It should be relatively easy for Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 to be much better for setting up, if those guys just read the forums and listen to people and perform some testing. BTW, for whatever reason they seem to have disabled vram swapping in 6.1, a little more communication with regard to such things wouldn't be bad as well.

Last edited by MikeB on 19-Mar-2009 at 05:34 PM.