On April 1 (no joke) the 3.21 firmware will be rolled out, effectively wiping out anything you have put on your OtherOS-partition. The move is due to security concerns from Sony, apparently because of the hypervisor hack.

psubuntu.com will not shut down any time soon. There is still lots of useful information in the forums, and some of you might want to skip the update just to keep their OtherOS running. But we realize this is now a niche user base.

Although it took some effort setting up and optimizing Ubuntu on the PS3, this community has provided lots of useful information and tools to make it worth the effort.

Thanks to all those who have been involved.

the PSUbuntu team

Dan Munckton has released a new test kernel based on 2.6.25.7 from upstream, with some of Geoff’s Cell patches applied. You can find sources and a build for powerpc64-smp here: http://ubuntu.munckfish.net/linux-ports/

Feedback is wanted on hardware support and other issues.

More information on the build on the cell mailing list.

Note that you must be using an updated kernel (2.6.24) for fbset to work.

The PSUbuntu developers are hoping to find a way to include this at install time.

See SwiftBiscuits forum post for instructions.

Instructions and information can be found in this forum thread.

Discuss the launch in the forums.

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