After yesterdays official release of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, many of you have tried upgrading to the newest version using the Update Manager. But based on our own efforts, and those of you who reported errors on the forum, it does not yet work. Neither does any of the recent 8.04 CD image releases, if you plan to do a clean install.

There are still quite a few serious bugs in the kernel, X and the installer that prevent Hardy from working on the PS3. The developers are working hard on eliminating the bugs, but it could still be months before we have a working solution. If you’re interested in helping out testing and debugging, consider joining the ubuntu-cell mailing list.

You can follow the bug reports here.

UPDATE: Michael S. found a way to upgrade, but it takes some serious time and effort. See comment #2 for an elaborate walkthrough.

Gouki has recently started a mailing list for the Ubuntu Linux cell version, “including, but not limited, to the PS3 port of Ubuntu“.

The list should be of interest to anyone interested in PSUbuntu testing or development, and will keep you updated on relevant events.

Sign up or read the archives

We have set up a new forum to help organize posts and prevent the spam issues we had with the previous one. Unfortunately we couldn’t find a way to convert the current posts to the new forum, so we have to start from scratch.

The good side of this is that it makes it easier to restructure the rooms and give us more specific forum topics. We will also avoid confusion with old threads, tutorials and discussions meant for old releases.

The previous forum will still be open for a while, but eventually posting there will be disabled. It will still be accessible and searchable, but all current discussions should be merged to the new forums.

Welcome to the new PSUbuntu Forums!
Registration.

As you may have noticed we have changed the design of this website, with all subsites (blog, forum, wiki) now having similar layouts. Hope you like our new looks!

There’s been a while since the last update on psubuntu.com, but today we’re launching a new site feature. The PSUbuntu Wiki will make it easier to access the latest installation instructions or discover new ways to set up the OS.

So far it contains mostly material copied from our previous installation instructions, but we hope it will grow with more howtos and tutorials quickly.

We will keep it open for everyone to edit in the beginning, but might have to add some restrictions later.

PSUbuntu Wiki

cjwatson wrote a forum post on the current state of PSUbuntu development. Basically it’s a team of three at Canonical who have been working on Ubuntu support for the PS3. Now they could use some help on development and architecture for the platform.

If you’re up for the challenge here’s a summary of what the team needs help with:

• Testing CD images (especially daily builds just before milestone releases) of the development release, and reporting bugs in time so that developers can fix them.
• Triaging (gathering information on and assessing importance of) bug reports about PS3.
• Ensuring that the Ubuntu kernel contains necessary patches from the upstream PS3 Linux development tree, and keeping our ps3-kboot package in sync with changes such as device tree layout that happen there.
• Fixing bugs in critical components such as the Ubuntu installers, HAL, and others that require explicit handling of PS3.

Seems like a great way to learn more about Linux development and architecture. More info can be found in this forum post.

The developers could also inform us that they are currently working on new custom 7.10 builds for the PS3!