Can the yellow dog linux os meant for ps3 also be used on a laptop with vista on it?
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at
16:27
I want to know and also if I can use the yellow dog cd (the one meant for ps3) to shrink the partition size of the vista partition on my laptop. I plan on buying some laptop at walmart with vista on it and putting yellow dog on it for fun and also to try it out before committing to the ps3 to use it on too.
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Filed under: Linux
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Yellow Dog Linux doesn’t work on x86 PC hardware. It was originally designed for computers based on IBM POWER and Motorola/Freescale/IBM PowerPC processors, such as older Macintosh computers (G3, G4, and G5 are PPC processors), then adapted to PS3.
When PPC-based processors starting appearing in video game systems (Nintendo GameCube and Wii have processors based on the PPC750, Microsoft XBox 360’s Xenon and Sony Playstation 3’s Cell both have elements that are based on the PPC970), many people in the Linux community started looking at using these systems as Linux-based computers. Currently, the Playstation 3 is the only system where installing Linux is manufacturer-supported (Yellow Dog is Sony’s preferred Linux, though other distributions can be installed).
If you want to shrink the Vista partition on your laptop, download the totally free SystemRescueCD. It has a tool that lets you resize that partition safely, so you can install Linux on it. As far as distributions of Linux you can install on your laptop go, anything based on Red Hat will be very close to Yellow Dog, as Yellow Dog is really a port of Red Hat (x86) to PowerPC and POWER platforms.