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Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

February 20, 2012 – 12:39 pm | 3 Comments

Tiny Diggers has just been released on the iPad and soon the Mac computer. Here’s the details on this fun, educational game from TouchTilt Games.
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“Official” PS3 Linux Kit Ready for Takeoff

Submitted by on November 26, 2006 – 9:15 am3 Comments

Yellow_Dog.jpgThe PS3 has already been the beneficiary of the Fedora Core 5 Linux OS, but the official Yellow Dog Linux OS release is apparently scheduled for Monday. The installation guide for the operating system is online, for any of you that are interested.

The installation looks pretty straightforward, definitely easier than the hack-job Fedora Core setups I’ve seen. From the looks of the manual, it seems it might only take 15 minutes to install (not counting initial setups and such). The guide give some interesting partitioning info:

“You will be presented with option to “Allot 10GB to the Other OS” or “Allot 10GB to the PS3 System.” If your PS3 has a 20GB drive and you select 10GB for the PS3 System, this leaves roughly 6.5GB for Linux (which is not enough for a full install, but ample for the default YDL install).”

6.5GB is a pretty huge chunk of that precious hard drive space. Although, with the ability to pretty inexpensively swap it with a 120GB drive, I guess that’s not a problem. I’m not too familiar with Yellow Dog Linux, but I’m pretty interested to see some benchmarks on what an OS written exclusively for the PS3 can do. The OS will retail for $99 and can be purchased via their website.

A free (as well as, support-free) version will be available by Christmas. Unfortunately, I’m sure this will be on torrents everywhere by lunchtime on Monday.

Via TerraSoftSolutions.com

  • Kyle

    I feel sorry for the people making it, just because of the fact that the few people who actually have a PS3 aren’t going to want to spend 100 more dollars for some add on for it.

  • John H.

    This is the most exciting thing going with the PS3, if only the other manufacturers were this foresighted. The means by which it has been crippled as an anti-piracy measure remains to be seen, but at least they acknowledge that people might want to run their own software on it.

  • RoboJ1M

    Sounds like another attempt by Sony to get tax breaks by getting the PS3 officially labelled as a Computer instead of a Games Console. Apparently they tried this with the PS2 and failed.

    J1M.