is the ps2, dare i say, /our console/?

Damn I wanna do that with my ps2

>>61968234
its actually pretty easy, just need the disks, any IDE hard drive, the little adapter for the back of the machine (there are aftermarket ones) and an 8mb memory card

it uses the 8mb memory cart as storage for the boot files and then loads from HDD after installation, just using one of the 2 disks to start the distro
it even has networking, you can shitpost on /g/ from it

i only discovered that whole deal recently, i always wondered what the big cavity on the back of the PS2 was for, turns out its for a 3.5" hdd

it also has an HDD LED built into the front of the case that only gets used for this

>>61968213
That's sexy

>>61968278
>any IDE
WD drives don't fit because they used some dumbshit form factor connector piece.

>>61968339
the adapter on the back is adustable to allow for different spacing between the IDE connection and the Molex power connection

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For me it has to be the Xbox. Best modding community of any console, emulation community leaves something to be desired though.

>>61968213
Thats a computer

>>61968213
>>61968388
Topkek, kiddies find out about Linux on consoles.

I remember when I was 17 years old and running Linux on the PS2. Good times.

>>61968419
Anon I was 7 when the PS2 came out
I'm 21 now

>>61968213
TFW I still run gentoox on my Xbox ocassionaly

>install linux
>it can't play games anymore
good going fucktard

>>61968419
>Topkek, kiddies find out about Linux on consoles.
Maybe 15 years ago when I was an 11 year old messing around with it sure, hell I still got a bunch of xbox linux distros burned to CD somewhere, if I cared enough I'd try and get a pic for you.

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>>61968508
linux has no games

>>61968508
>take out the memory card with boot files
>put in a disc with a game
Wow, that's so hard.

>>61968508
it can still play games just fine
it just formats a memory card, instead of putting a linux disk in, you put any other game disk in

>>61968508
With the right setup you could actually launch games from the Linux DE and have it restart the box into whatever game you chose. At least on Xbox anyway.

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>>61968213
screenfetch pls

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>>61968613
>running linux on a 16 year old console is the only way freetards can play games

>>61968508
>not just using a PS2 emulator on a Linux running PS2
retard

>>61968388
my modded xbox was the best way i could watch porn when i was 16 years old without having tu wait 25 hours converting it to a dvd-video on my 1.3g duron

> none of the monitors I have will work with PS2
Still bummed I can't do this

>>61968734
you need a sync on green converter, Cameron Grey on youtube has a video that details ps2 linux on a modern monitor
same thing for a NEXTstation

>>61968786
I'm cheap, I would have only done this if I didn't need to buy anything else

>>61968213
Nostalgia for pointless shit

But this 15 years ago would have been heaven

>>61968649
>playing Gran Turismo at 30 frames per month

>>61968213
What's the point of this, other than for Sony to pay less tax due to claiming that it's a computer?

>>61968900
its for fun anon

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>>61968892

>Not being a grand autismo

>>61968900
Speaking of that, does anyone have an image of yabasic? I couldn't find it the last time I looked for it.

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>>61968213
>I use linux because I'm a hipster faggot

Grow up

this just in, you can install linux on a literal fucking potato!

>>61968649
>ps2 runs ps2 games flawlessly
>ps2 emulator running on ps2 can't even boot a game
Mind=blown

>>61969239
the emulator wouldnt even run since they are written for x86 processors, while the ps2 is MIPS

>>61969262
So run it on an x86 emulator

export PS2="Aw, snap!"

>>61969011
>he doesn't realize 90% of servers worldwide run on linux

>>61968213
>>61968278
How do you write boot files to the memory card? It just shows up as a disk?

Also, does networking work? I know there was an ethernet adapter thing you could buy to attach outside the HDD bay

>>61969432
yes, networking does work. you can use the internet but the software is limited of course

>>61968459
What. I'm 21 and the PS2 came out when I was 3.

They call it a PS2 because when you see it, you turn 2pi radians and walk away.

>>61969531
Dude no way you're 21 now or 3 the then
The thing came out at 2000

>>61970867
But the math checks out.

>>61968388
when it was released the Xbox was the best price/performance PC you could buy.

>>61968388
There was a version of Gentoo that ran on the Xbox. I installed it. So technically I can claim I have actually installed Gentoo.

>>61969758
not sure if bait

>>61969318
>90% of the world is poor
>90% of the world opts for Linux
Really activates the almonds

>>61971045
>Turn 360 degree and walk out
What's so hard to understand?

>>61970981
If you were Three in the year 2000 you're 20 not 21 my man
Then my memory is off
Or I got it later than I thought I did?
The second sounds more probable
Whatever that doesn't change the fact I was too young to care about loonix

>>61971149
Let's say his birthday is June 1. When the PS2 was released, he was 3. A couple months later he turned 4. On June 1, 2017 he turned 21.

>>61969239
But the PS2 cant even play games flawlessly

>>61971195
To be 3 at the 2000 you'd have to be born at 1997
2017 is 20 years away from 1997 anon
I was born in 1996 (in fact it was my birthday just a week ago)
I am 21.

>>61971195
Wait I misread
Disregard my faggotry here >>61971300

>>61968384
>the adapter on the back is adustable
FALSE.

>>61971300
When did you first start going on 4chan? I'm 21 as well and I've been here since I was 12

You can also install Gentoo and Debian 5 in the Wii. IIRC, the PSP and the Nintendo DS also had "usable" GNU ports running on it.

>>61968213
That does look aesthetic as fuck.

>>61971498
Don't remember that well
Really went on it on and off until I started properly lurking around 15

>>61968613
on the ps2 and ps3 they cripple their "official" linux distro by making a good chunk of the gpu unaccessible, effectively running them in their own sandbox with limited 2d accel.

on the xbox its a fucking pc compatible arch so no limits there.

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>>61968213
/g/ is about cutting edge, high-performance compute hardware, not out of date legacy underpowered peasant hardware.

>>61971673
this was cutting edge, high performance hardware in the year 2000

>>61969318
So?

>>61971124
You are a mathematical /genius/.

>>61968213
Running linux on a PS2 using a Dell monitor with an apple keyboard and mouse
and they said that linux hasn't good hardware support

>>61971691
>out of date
>legacy

>>61971691
it wasn't, but it was cheap

>>61971673
Yeah, like those sandy bridge thinkpads. The only think 'cutting edge' most of /g/ can afford is their riced Arch Linux install.

>>61968213
bumpin

>>61968388
i bought one a few months back, installed unleashX and put in a large HDD to FTP games to. comfiest 6th gen experience you can have in 2017

>>61968388
Some guy wrote a whole book on how they broke into that thing. It was a great read.

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>>61968213
>Released By Sony

>>61977182
To dodge taxes in britain since anything that can boot into a proper OS is considered a learning tool and gets tax breaks.
Sony did it briefly with the PS3 until they removed it because muh piracy and got sued

>>61977268
I always heard they did it because they were selling it at a loss during its launch because they would make the money back with the license fee from the games and people were buying them up to use as cheap cluster omputers so Sony removed that since they were losing money from those people obviously not buying games

>>61968520
Post them. They're fairly hard to find.

>>61977268
>OtherOS
I heard that the EC's competition referee saw through that ploy and there was therefore no reason to continue putting any effort into it.

>>61968388
i had one of those keyboards
stupid thing has a power button right in between "enter" and "delete"

>>61971534
PSP had way more usable GNU ports, DS just have proofs of concept just like iPod's did
>>61977390
Pretty much along with classy Sony proprietary and DRM sheanigans
The first gens PS3's are still the only way to rip SACD's losslessly

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>>61969280
>pcsx2 in an x86 linux chroot running in qemu-user, running in mips linux on a ps2

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Any resources on making a ps2 cluster? I know this thing exists, and that Saddam Hussein used ps2 clusters to guide missiles.

Seems like it be fun to make, and also you can buy old ps2's for $20 or less. Also more tantalizing would be using ps2 slim's.

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Who PS3 here? (old as h*ck screenshot)

>>61968388
>those days of switching to modchip mode, uploading some Halo 2 modded maps, switching to non-modded mode and then playing your modded maps in matchmaking
Felt so fucking advanced at the time.

The different BIOSes you could flash to the modchips all had their own unique features too, was neat as fuck. Later learned the modded BIOSes were actually built from leaked kernel source code, no wonder they worked so well.

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>>61977499
>no GPU

>>61977536
https://ghostbin.com/paste/kqxwq

>>61977600
There is a driver for it, I have the repo for it backed up if you want a copy. I never used it myself.

>>61977607
I already got it, maybe someone else can use it though.

That's the widely-shared leak btw, there's a way bigger leak that has tons of docs + drivers + dashboard apps and shit, and is where I made the xbox4044originals.rar from years ago, but I don't think that ever leaked out that much (someone really should get on that though, afaik the emu devs only ever had access to the public leak, the nvidia drivers/specs in the full thing could probably help them out a lot)

>>61977607
interesting
also, you can post ipfs hashes here, just put a newline part way through it

>>61977658
I've been meaning to contact team4ch about it but I don't know if anyone reads [email protected] anymore. Even the gateway links trip the spamfilter now, which they didn't before and the hashes used to be fine too but now they're not.

making a machine that plays games into a machine that can't play games what's the use

>>61977695
I asked that myself when I upgraded 98SE to XP and all my shit broke.

>>61977653
Why don't you leak it yourself? For all you know you might be the only one that still has the files.

>>61968388
Yup, it's pretty much the easiest to mod as well. I am thinking of buying one (from a friend for $30) so that I can fuck around with it.

>>61975832
How easy was the HDD swapping process?

>>61977746
Eh I don't really mind talking about this stuff but I don't want to be the source of any leaks, I only released that xbox4044originals.rar because I noticed the public leak had a bunch of modded files that weren't original (IIRC the public leak was actually code for one of the modded BIOSes, I'd guess the original guy with the leak probably gave stripped down copies to some of the top Xbox modders/groups for them to work on stuff, and then one of those guys ended up sharing their codebase around)

I know a lot of the X360 modding community has the same complete leak anyway, so I'm sure it'll be traded around and leaked eventually.

Anyway speaking of code leaks, I have it on good authority that the entire Xbox Live server codebase actually leaked back in 2012/2013, see: http://www.maxconsole.com/threads/exclusive-when-and-how-xbox-live-was-hacked.22462/
That and people talking about a 2012 leak on assembler recently.

There's actually people working on trying to emulate XBL servers for the original Xbox, that code could probably help if someone ever decides to go and leak it publicly.

>>61977844
Not that Anon but I would love any of these files for posterity/archiving if anyone is willing to post any of them.

>>61971711
yes and?

>>61977777
WTF

>>61977906
There's not much practical use for them so they're cheap. They take up a lot of space too.

sony only did this because it was cheaper to import computers through customs than video games. master merchant work.

>>61977777
I think I just witnessed history

>>61968213
No. The hardware is outdated as fuck.
Linux has been run on everything from a ds to the xbox 360.. it doesnt mean this is a good idea.

>>61977865
privnote com/wJecF7jM#etFIBcqve

>>61978046
https://privnote.com/LsUxlrJq#eBghA9imh

Literally don't care, my web server is also my Wii, go fuck yourself

>>61978082
Checked

>>61978247
How about this?
https://ghostbin.com/paste/6wh77

>>61978117
nintenbabby get out

>>61978046
>>61978082
>>61978272
FYI I'm going to bed, if you contact me I'll respond later.

anyone compile a newer kernel to the xbox?

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>DS can't run linux proper
>But an accessory for it can

>>61978508
It can run linux dodgy tho
Also what accessory?

>>61977777
Nice

>>61977499
Me.

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Original Xbox had gentoo and an upgradeable harddrive.

>>61978023
What's so historic?

>>61980288
Thanks

>>61980441
so did the ps2

>>61968419
Last year?

>>61977453
>Saddam Hussein used ps2 clusters to guide missiles
Nah it was cnn fake news, ps2 were banned in Irak tho in fear of that occuring but there have never been any proof that ps2 were used by the Iraqi army. On the other heand the US air force had a supercomputer made of PS3s

>>61968213
Not when a CFW'd PS3 can do similar things.

>>61980772
The PS2 came out when I was 14.
Do the math.

>>61981123
I think the PS3 super computer simulated black holes or some shit.

but how much ram do these consoles have and is it possible to add more?

>>61981820
ps2: 32M
xbox: 64M (upgradable to 128M by soldering into additional chips, and modifying the bios)

But how fast is it? Can it run lelnux gaymrs smoothly?

>>61981856
wont really be usable then. web browsers wont even start and most server things take more than that too.

>>61969318
>A hacked together version of a 70's server OS is dominant on servers, while windows entered the market later, with a modded version of a workstation built system;
Oh, wow.
Greeeat.

>>61971102
>>61982010
>gets triggered whenever linux is mentioned in a positive light
Oh, wow.
Greeeat.

>>61982179
Nah, i like the OS for it's various nice parts, but fuck me if it isn't the same cliche avoidant answers from linux fanboys.
>But muh supercomputers;
>But muh servers;

Yeah, and most embedables are usually QNX or Windows CE or some shit.
What's your point?

>>61981990
"full blown" modern browsers won't do much without working mostly in swap, which will be slow as balls
but if you stick to something much leaner, like dillo or netsurf, you could browse some sites

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PS3 supports new OS installations as well.

>>61982278
as long as you dont update it

>>61982278
I thought they were pre-updated right from the factory after they decided to push the update? Where to even find one that isn't locked?

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>>61977453
>ps2 clusters
fucking fat Craig

>>61977453

one simply question> how the fuck you guide missiles with a ps2 clusters?

>>61983161
Just modchip one and downgrade.

>>61983253

>turn on ps2 cluster
>room glows like the fucking sun under ir camera
>enemy missile guided to that location instead of home of glorious leader

>>61968213
but can it run a ps2 emulator?

Always wanted to run leenux on a ps2.
Only managed to run homebrew software and snes emulator.
Btw nice thread /g/

>>61984568
even when the ps2 was brand new, and especially when the ps2 linux kit came out, 32M of ram was pretty low, if you weren't doing anything specialized with it, it wasn't very useful

>>61982221
Linux is conquering embedded too.
>RPis
>Android
>Wayland
>EFL / Tizen

>>61984691
>Wayland
What does it have to do with embedded

>>61982871
OtherOS++ is also an option if you want a more recent firmware, it's better anyway as it doesn't lock up or restrict as many hardware resources as Sony's OtherOS.

>>61977801
simple but time consuming. you have to FTP over a program and then power up a computer to power the new drive while the program copies everything over from the old one.

>>61985206
you can create a new xbox hdd and copy over contents using just a PC, provided you have a dump of your eeprom (which should be your first priority to obtain, unless you have a modchip), and also your machine has a real IDE controller, which is starting to disappear from modern machines
you only really need to transfer contents from the user partition, which iirc is 4GB, which takes little time to transfer, especially if they're on separate controllers

>>61985490
E:, if the user partition, iirc
C: is just the dashboard, not typically modified by the user in normal operation, so you lose nothing by not taking the specific copy from the original drive, though it's pretty small
then there's 3 cache partitions (was it X:, Y:, Z:?), these are dynamically used by recently run games, and don't need to be moved to the new drive (again, not user-customized typically, though there are some unofficial uses, like how people modify their content to inject custom maps into halo by replacing the cached version of an official map, as an example)

>>61968213
This is so tempting but I don't have the little adapter and I don't really care enough to get it.

>>61968213
Now I just need to buy a ps2

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>>61977801
Much easier now than hooking it up to your PC, either hotswap it with the DVD drive or TSOP the motherboard and plug the new HDD in with Slayers Boot DVD/CD.

>>61987203
>easy
i thought that it had a drive lock that you need to open with something before you can change drives?

>>61968213
>>linux
>>sony PS2
>> Mac keyboard and mouse
>>dell monitor

its fuckin frankenstein!!

>>61988652
Just make sure your HDD is lockable if you're doing the hotswap method, there's a compatibility list out there and just about every modern HDD is lockable. My Seagate Barracuda 1TB that I bought early 2017 works perfectly.

>>61968213
Launch PS3 is my console. Full PS2 BC, good PS1 BC, and, of course, full PS3 compatibility.

>>61977777
Holy shit

>>61984691
Wayland? explain.

is there really no videos of a ps2 emulator running on ps2?

>>61968786
What the.. Im not even surprised. I saw this video like 10 hours ago. It was in my recommended list. Im seeing tgis thread just now for the first rime. Thanks Google.
>>61968213
>no gentoo
Fuck off. PS3 have gentoo therefore its better.

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>>61968213
Is anyone else getting you tube recommendations for the ps2 linux video after clicking on this thread?

>>61968213
Wow I forgot all about PS2. Funny as it may seem I rarely played them, even back when they were popular. Rather I made quiet a bit of $$$ for modchipping them and putting them on ebay until all the crybabies and haters came out and whined. I think I even still have a small box of old Swap Magic discs in one of my storage units.

>>61978508
THREAD STILL UP, I SAID WHAT ACCESORY NIGGA?

>>61990964
Happens to me when I think of things too, also its probably from the captcha they are tracking you.

>>61985553
It's retarded, but you can install most Morrowind mods to the cache partitions. As long as they don't add a bunch of textures or anything that eats memory. High amusement value.

>>61969432
The Ethernet adapter is the IDE adapter. It's all built into one piece.

Source: modded PS2 user who plays games from HDD and uses it as a simple media client from a networked media server

this /our meme/ is the worst, for some reason i get triggered every fucking time i see that shit.

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>>61987203
sorry if this is a stupid question: but this means you can virtually play any game?

whats the point without xbox live.. xbox live is all i did on my old xbox

fyi i just purchased an original xbox for 70 bucks.

>>61978508
>>61991496
>>61978654
Same question. Research yields nothing. It seems that no flash card for DS runs Linux, at least.

>>61992009
>70 shekels for an xbox heug
you got scammed

>>61993130
but anon i got to go outside
i met my new girlfriend while buying this
thats what i paid the premium for

even tho that didnt happen

>>61993161
>he fell for the 3DPD meme
you'll just end up regretting it eventually, just as i did.

>>61991524
but I use the legacy captcha

>>61968213
Xbox and GC > PS double