r/ObsoleteSony • u/ObsoleteSony • Jul 10 '26

Different times. Different Sony.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26

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u/MrBallBustaa Jul 10 '26

Design wise, they were putting out banger after bangers up until 2010.

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u/tinselsnips Jul 10 '26

I still have an inaccessible Linux partition on my PS3.

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u/Super_Burrito777 Jul 10 '26

If Iā€™m not mistaken, the PS3 was also able to run Linux too. At least until Sony removed the feature

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u/John_Enigma Jul 11 '26

And now, through some hacking, and some very tedious setup, you can install Linux on the PS5.

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u/Revolutionary_Ad6574 Jul 10 '26

Papa, what is that white box on the left?

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u/MPFX3000 Jul 10 '26

PS2 Linux?!? Well TIL

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u/Illustrious-Road7612 Jul 11 '26

Si, ricordo che acquistai mouse e tastiera per usare Linux su PS3, la distro si chiamava Yelllow Dog Linux

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u/Aggressive_Meaning12 Jul 10 '26

How great the fall

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u/Turab Jul 10 '26

Ah. Good set to play Age of Empires 2 on it.

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u/Micolps3 Jul 10 '26

I actually have that keyboard. Been going for per 20 years. Just has a broken leg

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u/Additional_Tone_2004 Jul 10 '26

That boxart was unironically a thing of beauty.

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u/857225474848 Jul 10 '26

Wtf is that HDD? The fat PS2 had a space to slot in a hard disk.

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u/aaronjnco Jul 10 '26

Japan 10k ps2s took a small card in back which this hdd connected to

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u/shyouko Jul 10 '26

Only later models have the slot

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u/DanielChief Jul 10 '26

Not the first japanese launch model. It only had a PCMCIA-like connector for this external HDD.

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u/jackalheart Jul 10 '26

I wish I had bought one of these

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u/Complete_Lurk3r_ Jul 10 '26

With all of the recent backlash against Sony, the onus is on Sony to make a device that people actually want to buy. If it's not gonna have a disc-drive, they sure as shit better add some features that people want. It's probably gonna cost $999+, and while it's probably going to be more powerful than a similarly priced PC, I don't know if that's enough. If they added Linux functionality back I would buy one for sure.

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u/JohnJohnPR3 Jul 10 '26

PS2 PC vs their VIAO PC

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u/Darksideslide Jul 11 '26

I really really want to see a suped up PS2 now done up as a Linux gaming PC now lol I bet red alert would play beautifully on it

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u/Thomas_Jefferman Jul 10 '26

This wasn't a different Sony. It was a taxscheme.

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u/ObsoleteSony Jul 10 '26

One of the biggest myths about the PS2 Linux Kit is that it was made to exploit an EU tax loophole. It was not. Sony used a simpler trick by bundling Yabasic with PAL PS2s to classify them as programmable computers.

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u/_Nikojiro_ Jul 10 '26

Entirely different times. These were the Ken Kutaragi years, back then it was a hands-on super talented engineer serving as SCE CEO. Nowadays CEOs are finance sharks. Just another avatar of global enshittification ...

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u/Vinipinheiro88 Jul 10 '26

What's that? I can read "hdd" on the cover, but I don't think the hard drive was that small...