Talk:Linux for PlayStation 2

Who has the kit? Sony only made a few of these linux kits and they sold fast. It was only verson 1.0, but I am not sure if Sony is in the process of making another Linux Kit for Playstation 2.

It wasn't lack of sales that caused the unavailablity of kits in NTSC U/C territory, they just sold the entire run of kits and didn't make more. It wasn't meant to be a wide release anyway. I have a kit and have been using it as a personal desktop since May of 2002. It was intended for hobbyist development, though there were people using them for scientific computing, like the cluster at the NSCA

I have the kit :-) Indeed, PS2 Linux was just junk. It obviously proved that a game console without games is nothing but a poor, useless computer; a mere 300MHz & 32MB RISC computer without hardware double-precision operation and 2D graphic acceleration is not enough for any purpose. Its only practical use is a small, quiet (but not extensible at all) home server. 219.113.144.250 22:01, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

I have the European kit. Window Maker can be seen ugly, but it's efficient and fast. With this kit, I read e-mails, surf on the web, type texts in Abiword, chat in ICQ/IRC and contribute in Wikipedia. I've no tested as a server, but as personal computer the kit fulfills the function. It's very limitated (no KDE, no Amerca's Army 4Linux) by sufficient to be an personal computer. With a modchip installed (DMS-3), you can partition the HD for Linux and HD Loader games. I have a memory card for the system and another for the games. And finishing, is fully possible use DVD drive in Linux, just using a patch. Resuming, it's very complicated and limited for casual users, but a great system for enthusiastics a awesome console game. --Brazil4Linux 13:53, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

How do put this article in a subcategory of Linux_distributions called "Linux distributions for Game Consoles"? And is this a good title for this subcategory. Or how do I create a "List of Linux distributions for Game Consoles"? The articles about the distros that would go in this subcategory (or on this list) are already entered in wikipedia. Zerothis 05:08, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Suggested rename

PS2 Linux isn't the official title of the kit. The article should probably be renamed to "Linux (Playstation 2)" or "Linux Kit" or some other combination. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:59, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Linux for PlayStation 2 it is then. Chris Cunningham 17:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

HELP!!!

According to the article, the memory card is used as RAM, but it is limited to 32MB. Can multiple cards be put in a multitap to quadruple the RAM to 128MB or two multitaps to octuple the RAM to 256MB? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.68.192.62 (talk) 03:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC).

The memory card isn't used as ram, the PS2 has it's own internal 32 MB of ram which are used. The access speed on a memory card is VERY slow and using it for ram would be very impractical. A ps2 memory card also only has 8 MB of space, not 32. Mr toasty 03:43, 19 May 2007 (UTC)