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[mgillespie]

Being totally hacked off with the onboard PS3 browser, I was thinking, what I need, is a very stripped back Linux, that provides nothing but essential networking/Keyboard/Mouse/X and a single browser support.

I want to boot a minimal Linux to a single user X session, which opens Opera web browser (and hence gives me chat, news, email and RSS too), when I close Opera, I want it to reboot back to GameOS.

Anyone done anything like this? Does it sound feasible?

If not, anyone got any tips for starting points for a project.

[JFReyes]

I have been using Fedora 9 successfully for the past few months. I got decent performance by doing the following:

1) Customized the kernel to eliminate any unneeded drivers and features, activated most PS3 specific features and converted most of the needed features to loadable modules (instead of in-kernel).

2) Added the ps3fb=4M parameter to the kernel boot line to increase available RAM (about 20 MB!) from unused video memory.

3) Disabled unneded services.

4) Use the XFCE desktop, which is very lightweight.

Try these suggestions and see how they work out for you. You may also want to check out this thread on fedoraforum.org: F9 on a PS3

You might want to try this way. Good luck.
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José

[mgillespie]

Likely to head Gentoo way, because it's far more customisable (and I am more familiar with it), unless you can tell me otherwise..

[JFReyes]

I'm not familiar with Gentoo so I can't help you there, although I've read elsewhere that it's very PS3 friendly. However, the above tips are kernel level and XFCE is ubiquitous so therefore should work with any Linux distro.

I forgot to mention one more tip:

5) Keep your partitions simple (no LVM, just /boot, swap and /) and I use ext3 on /boot for compatibility and XFS on / because my setup is multimedia oriented.
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José

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