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Update: PS3 able to run Office?

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Nov 21, 20062 mins

Sony’s new game console may not just be for gaming, and you might even be able to claim your new “toy” as a business expense, writes InfoWorld Test Center’s Ted Samson.

This is thanks to Sony being good enough to make available Open Platform for PlayStation 3, which has allowed Linux enthusiasts to load their new PS3s with Fedora Core 5 OS.

Samson writes:

Intrigued? Well, QJ.net has some instructions on how to go about doing the installation, and videos are popping up on sites like YouTube showing how it’s done.

According to QJ.net, once you’ve put Fedora on your PS3, “you will be able to install any app as long as it has a PPC build of it. That includes most major applications like Mozilla Firefox, VLC player, and more.”

Update: Well, So, Codeweavers CrossOver Linux software does run Windows apps on Fedora 5, but not a PS3 with because it runs on a Cell processor..

According to one blog entry found in this Google search, Codeweavers works pretty well.

But could not virtualization software do the trick? Just not sure if any is done for Cell. According to IBM Research, Cell does virtualization.

Is it possible?

Challenge, or Game in this context, is on…

mike_barton

Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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