This Playstation 2 runs Linux, no doubt!
It's actually a very early Playstation 2, labelled "TEST"
Some components of the kit: a USB keyboard and mouse.
What else is connected to the Playstation 2's USB port?
Why it's a USB webcam connected to the Playstation 2!
A large crowd grows...
Somewhere between 40 and 50 people came.
People raid the 'Free Stuff' tables.
Some donations to the LUGOD library: Libranet (Linux distribution),
a LNX-BBC bootable Linux businesscard CD, O'Reilly's
"Managing RAID on Linux" book, and the long-awaited DVD of
Jon 'Maddog' Hall's appearance at LUGOD.
Adam Bertsch from SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment, America) begins his
talk.
This is actually a Sony product, not just some homebrew hack! But why
did Sony do it...?
The Linux that runs on the Playstation 2 is Kondara
(a now-defunct Japanese distro based on RedHat.) And no, you can't buy
a copy of Quake 3 for Linux running on a PC and try to run it on the
Playstation 2! (People have apparently asked this!)
Adam Bertsch tells us what he has planned for us...
A reflective sphere. (16k of code and data running on the PS2's
"Vector Unit 1")
We were warned not to go into the sphere!
A group of cute, animated aliens. (Also only 16k of code and data!)
We saw interesting animateed "shag carpet" shapes and this Lego-like pattern.
A playable Tetris game.
A realtime Mandlebrot set (fractal) that could zoom in and out quite a bit!
More fractal.
Interesting cylinders of text, reminiscent of Tron and The Matrix.
WindowMaker, an XTerm and the XMMS multimedia player (playing some MP3s)
running on the Playstation 2 under Linux!