[Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?

[François Galea]

Hi Geoff,

Geoff Levand a écrit :
> The feature of "Install Other OS" was removed from the new
> "Slim" PS3 model to focus on delivering games and other
> entertainment content. 
> 
> Please be assured that SCE is committed to continue
> the support for previously sold models that have the
> "Install Other OS" feature and that this feature will
> not be disabled in future firmware releases.

Thank you for this clarification.

I would just like to express my disappointment about this choice from 
SCE. It is really bad news for the CBE open source community, because 
the new ps3 customers will not have access to what some oss developers 
have made, in the idea to let the others profit from their work. I never 
imaginated SCE would take such an arbitrary decision.

Cell B.E. programming is now officially reserved to a restricted 
community, which is not good news for the architecture in general. I 
guess most QSx Cell blade purchasers have made early testings on ps3's. 
I doubt, as this has now become impossible, that selling Cell blades 
will be as easy as it was. The future will tell us.

François