Custom firmware on PS3, Linux on Slims? ... and enabled the use of Linux on the PlayStation 3 Slim hardware, the system may be compromised to allow all sorts of other nefarious uses.

We need this to succeed in order to reach the final goal of installing CFW on PS3 Super Slim (4k). This is how it looks for lv0 (where we have the keys already). Code: scetool -v -d lv0 foo.out ...

Custom Firmware v3.55 for PS3 released! Only to be followed 19 minutes later with: ... I’ve just read that it’s also bricking a lot of 60Gb models so it’s not just the slim PS3 being affected.

Waninkoko’s PS3 Custom Firmware 3.55 with Backup Support Posted by greg ... Update: Well, on my Slim the installation went a-okay! That said I’ve uploaded the patched PUP for you.

"This can be installed without having to open up your PS3, just by restoring a custom generated PUP file, but only from 3.15 or previous. It's possible this CFW will also work on the slim to ...

Geohot even says that the custom firmware might actually enable the other OS feature on the PS3 Slim, but he hasn't yet had a chance to try it out. [Thanks, Milo] ...

PlayStation 3 and iPhone hacker GeoHot has released a video that seems to show custom firmware running on Sony's hardware. He also believes this may enable Linux on Slim PlayStation 3 units. To ...