I've stopped daily PlayStation 3 CD builds on cdimage.ubuntu.com. Changes made by Sony to the "Other OS" facilities of the PS3 have made it increasingly difficult for people with new systems to run Ubuntu on them, and there seem to be hardly any developers with the interest and ability to keep the CD images working. Building separate CD images for PS3 takes a substantial amount of resources (disk space, time required to run the powerpc and powerpc+ps3 live filesystem builds sequentially, developer time to fix problems, and so on), and right now it doesn't seem to be worth it.
Since the PS3 uses powerpc binaries, it should still be possible to upgrade PS3 systems to newer versions of Ubuntu for the foreseeable future, provided that they were initially installed with a version earlier than Natty. If you have a good reason why we should keep building PS3 CD images for Natty, and are willing to step up as a developer to help support them, then please reply to [email protected]. Regards, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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