So, I don't see it being all that useful outside of maybe running as a server for something on your network, which frankly a raspberry pi would probably be better suited for at this point considering performance and power usage. Without knowing the model I can't say for sure, but considering you'd in theory have one machine that can play almost everything from three generations of PlayStations, I think you'd be better served using it as one.Īlso, while I can't say for sure, I'd imagine that software support under Linux isn't going to be that great as you'd be running most if not all software on just the Cell's single 2 thread general purpose PPE PowerPC core, with 256 MB of system memory.

Also, if you have a model that natively supported linux, then it is also likely to be a model that had PS2 backwards compatibility. There's a lot of great homebrew for it, it makes for a great emulation machine, and it's still the best non-UHD bluray player on the market. I'd say that at this point you'd be better off turning it into a normal PS3 and then installing a custom firmware. Reposting this response from the thread in the linux forum.

How to install linux on ps3 slim