Vallified

In between bouts of Wipeout HD, I net-installed 64-bit Fedora Core 12 on my 80GB PS3. Installation with PetitBoot didn’t present any problems, though audio didn’t seem to work. However FC12 is quite slow on my PS3, so I ain’t going to use it – it seems it’s paging to disk a lot.

I knew something was up when Anaconda wouldn’t fire up the graphical installer due to insufficient memory, which made it a pain to customize the software. The other thing I noticed (at least, I think I noticed it) is that FC12 showed the same MAC addresses for both eth0 and wlan0. I actually had to tell it to get a DHCP address from wlan0 before it got network connectivity – and it then got an IP address from my wired router. It seems like FC12 had swapped them.

I might try Yellow Dog Linux next.

Wipeout 2097 looks pretty poor compared to this