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!

Progress is being made on video playback for the PS3, and we now have .debs for a PS3-patched MPlayer for PSUbuntu.

Follow the instructions on nomegos Optimizing the Ubuntu PS3 experience page, and you should be able to watch videos with better performance running the command

mplayer-ps3 -vo ps3 -fs filename

from the terminal.

Forum thread

The latest firmware update for the PS3 (v2.0) for some reason removes wireless configuration from your PSUbuntu Network Manager.

The solution is to upgrade your kernel using the linux-kernel-2.6.23-rc7_tools package.

Here’s how to do it:

• Get the tar file and copy it to your PSUbuntu Desktop (use a usb-stick or other media)
• Extract the files and run the .deb files linux-headers.., linux-image.., and wifi-radar (wifi-radar not necessary?)
• Reboot, and your wireless network shold be available again.

If anyone has any idea as to why this happened, or if there are other ways to get Wifi back, let us know!

See this forum thread for more.

We have begun writing up an initial walkthrough for configuring your system following the new installation instructions guide. So far we have covered monitor setup and wireless network configuration (WEP only). We will keep updating the setup page as new solutions come up. Your comments and contributions are most welcome.

Link: PSUbuntu Setup