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You may recall, the original launch PS3's could run Linux natively.

Sony eventually disabled support for it.

> Sony eventually disabled support for it.

and got sued for it in the US. People not living in the US got screwed though. We paid for a feature that sony took back. Never bought a sony product since.

Ahh yeah, that's right. And I got ~$50 as part of the settlement.

I did run Linux on it, but was disappointed when OtherOS did not have access to the RSX chip.

My siblings and I used the PS3 to play old dos games on the TV via linux/dosbox. We used to play more or less daily until Sony took it away. I still remember my brother being very disappointed.

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