Installing Linux on a PlayStation 2!

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    Today we're checking out Sony's official Linux kit for the PlayStation 2. It came with almost everything you need to turn your PS2 into a desktop computer!
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    00:00 - Introduction and Overview
    05:49 - Setting Up Hardware
    09:35 - The Install
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  • @ItsYaDawg
    @ItsYaDawg Před 4 měsíci +419

    Imagine running Linux, on a PS2 emulator, in a virtual machine, on a Mac

    • @qs4_
      @qs4_ Před 2 měsíci +17

      The Mac 🔥🔥

    • @stijncaris6445
      @stijncaris6445 Před 2 měsíci +41

      And then in that linux emulating a ps3

    • @rizzsane
      @rizzsane Před měsícem +9

      *Hackintosh installed on a windows emulator running on an android built in tesla😊

    • @Prismo_Pickles
      @Prismo_Pickles Před měsícem +2

      bro you're giving him ideas..

    • @yukiplaysFr
      @yukiplaysFr Před měsícem +2

      him: new content founded!!

  • @DubiousD
    @DubiousD Před 2 lety +1467

    There's such a novelty in how antithetical a region locked Linux install is

  • @realMattGavin
    @realMattGavin Před 2 lety +534

    It still shocks me when I look at retro grade hardware how powerful it actually was. Knowing photoshop it is surprising to see the tools gimp provided even back then.

    • @raviolimavioli
      @raviolimavioli Před 2 lety +52

      And somehow the pre-release GIMP is more intuitive than the current GIMP

    • @mar2ck_
      @mar2ck_ Před 2 lety +16

      @@raviolimavioli I don't see how that's the case? Having 5 windows for one application isn't exactly intuitive

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Před 2 lety +40

      @@mar2ck_ Photoshop had many windows as well before they changed to “panels”. The windows being separate doesn’t preclude the user from having an easier time knowing where to click to do what they want, whereas modern day GIMP hides a lot of things behind menus which don’t make themselves immediately apparent.

    • @Diamond_Tiara
      @Diamond_Tiara Před 2 lety +8

      Gimp is an horror ( really, grab a CS3 portabl and run it on WINE) but at work I use a Thinkpad X60 for admin stuff and basically, LibreOffice stuff, and gets the job done. So yeah, Linux. as soon you have some ram and a CPU and not a truck of a GUI ( xfce or wmaker) it will get the job done.

    • @bluestar5812
      @bluestar5812 Před 2 lety +6

      @@raviolimavioli My main gripe with GIMP is the unintuitive user interface. At least with PhotoGIMP mod you can make it look like modern Photoshop.

  • @xray323
    @xray323 Před 2 lety +249

    This is one of the coolest things I have seen sony do. I wished they still did this kind of things. I am impressed.

    • @wilfredynunez5263
      @wilfredynunez5263 Před 2 lety +58

      This was a strategic move on Sony's part. The rumor is, that in order to bypass tariffs on Game Consoles in certain countries; they tried to claim the PS2 was a computer since it technically runs Linux, and can connect to a mouse and Keyboard.

    • @Adeyum64
      @Adeyum64 Před 2 lety +30

      I mean they did with PS3 before pulling the plug

    • @at-cj2iy
      @at-cj2iy Před 2 lety +22

      It was on PS3 until the 2010 update

    • @o_KingOfKings_o
      @o_KingOfKings_o Před rokem +1

      PS4 jailbreak can run this easy

    • @awii.neocities
      @awii.neocities Před rokem +8

      @@o_KingOfKings_o That isn't official. That's just a bunch of programmers trying to see what they can do with the PS4 hardware. Sony outright supported using Linux on a regular PS2, no modding needed.

  • @kokonbini
    @kokonbini Před 2 lety +2221

    THE NOSTALGIA HIT ME IN WAVES
    In Europe, Sony included a version of BASIC with the PS2 called Yabasic, but some stores would also bundle in copies of PS2Linux. This was mainly done to circumvent some taxation (or something along those lines) that the EU had placed on game consoles, and including Yabasic/PS2Linux allowed them to sell the PS2 as a computer making it exempt from that tax.
    My PS2 was my first truly personal computer as a result, excluding family PCs

    • @Sithedd
      @Sithedd Před 2 lety +185

      Yabasic! Sounds like an insult. 😂

    • @kokonbini
      @kokonbini Před 2 lety +112

      @@Sithedd building BASIC at any point after 1986 might as well have been one tbf

    • @kokonbini
      @kokonbini Před 2 lety +68

      @Justin Chanyong Rhee especially when you're the only one in your family who doesn't save everything to the desktop

    • @Sithedd
      @Sithedd Před 2 lety +21

      @@kokonbini man I learned BASIC in high school in 2007. And I forgot it all.

    • @kokonbini
      @kokonbini Před 2 lety +16

      @@Sithedd I only ever bothered learning it when I started to experiment with some older 8-bit micros

  • @VaporZone
    @VaporZone Před 2 lety +595

    i clicked on this video thinking it was a MattKC video, and here is MJD, I encourage this type of content on this channel. I love to watch MJD and MattKC. I would watch this type of content on this channel anyday of the week.

  • @calvinbarnes1721
    @calvinbarnes1721 Před 2 lety +73

    Those screens bring back so many memories. I started using Linux in 2001 so nearly every install looked like that. WindowMaker had one of the smallest RAM footprints of any GUI.

    • @akshaymathur136
      @akshaymathur136 Před rokem +5

      Ahh how fondly do I remember the twm vs fvwm vs windowmaker (and a few others) debates on which one was the best wm for low end machines of the time.
      I went with fvwm, it's still the backup which will definitely work if all else fails.

  • @loserguy4358
    @loserguy4358 Před 2 lety +50

    The amount of customization is very impressive.

    • @MrKata55
      @MrKata55 Před rokem +3

      That's Linux (or, GNU+Linux, or any other OSS OSes like BSD and stuff) for you :D

    • @loserguy4358
      @loserguy4358 Před rokem +4

      It's been maybe 2 years since I converted to Linux, and I am happy now :)

  • @klebdotio3284
    @klebdotio3284 Před 2 lety +585

    I remember watching your POSReady 2009 and Windows FLP videos when you had 5k subscribers, really happy to see how much your channel has grown

    • @kantraa
      @kantraa Před 2 lety +4

      Windows FL what?

    • @ikbintom
      @ikbintom Před 2 lety +6

      @@kantraa the coolest version of windows XP 😀

    • @ciach0_
      @ciach0_ Před 2 lety +10

      @@kantraa Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs

    • @hariranormal5584
      @hariranormal5584 Před 2 lety +1

      same, the videos just stopped popping in suggestions, so I never knew this guy went so big quick :P

    • @Whizify
      @Whizify Před 2 lety +1

      channel join date: 2018

  • @MaySoMusician
    @MaySoMusician Před 2 lety +874

    Hi from Japan! Japanese keyboards are slightly different from US ones, especially for typing special characters such as backticks and colons. So if you face a problem about it, remember to change keyboard configuration.
    BTW everything 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 in this time, isn't it rare for your videos? :)

    • @riverlefae2047
      @riverlefae2047 Před 2 lety +51

      Well, it's specially designed software running on specially designed hardware, so it's not surprising things went well. Don't misunderstand, I'm happy it did work! Also, that is very good advice, thank you. :)

    • @KingLich451
      @KingLich451 Před 2 lety +2

      Hah!

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA Před 2 lety +1

      @@KingLich451 WarCraft

    • @stecewalters1996
      @stecewalters1996 Před 2 lety +1

      What is a backtick

    • @lens3973
      @lens3973 Před 2 lety +13

      @@stecewalters1996 ... `

  • @NinjaRunningWild
    @NinjaRunningWild Před 2 lety +65

    I bought the PS2 Linux Kit when they first came out. I even founded a game company with another guy from their forums who happened to live locally.
    One thing I recall is that they are _very_ picky about the monitor type you connect to; requiring a sync on green monitor type which not all monitors of the time were.
    Beyond that, it was pretty cool, including 7 of 8 of the official developer manuals & AfterStep, a Nextstep clone for Linux (I’ve owned a Next Turbo 33 which I sold years ago).

    • @anon_y_mousse
      @anon_y_mousse Před rokem +3

      What game company? Are you still developing today?

    • @JohnZombi88
      @JohnZombi88 Před 12 dny

      ​@@anon_y_moussehis newest game was Boku no Pico

    • @anon_y_mousse
      @anon_y_mousse Před 12 dny +1

      @@JohnZombi88 I thought maybe you knew him, but after looking that up I now think that it's a cruel joke you're attempting to make at his or my expense and I'm not sure why.

    • @JohnZombi88
      @JohnZombi88 Před 12 dny

      @@anon_y_mousse I can't believe that worked

  • @Luzum
    @Luzum Před 2 měsíci +4

    holy shit, a Playstation 2 branded network adapter, external hard drive, keyboard and mouse, this is blowing my mind. The fact that they even had a Linux kit at all absolutely blows my mind, this is insane whatttt

  • @ashberic
    @ashberic Před 2 lety +104

    >screen way too green
    "Let's fix that."
    >makes screen way too red
    "Ok perfect."

  • @maboroshi1986
    @maboroshi1986 Před 2 lety +560

    Idk if it’s mentioned but the reason for the colours being so messed up was because you were using a regular vga monitor. The ps2 outputs sync on green through its RGB mode which many modern monitors don’t support correctly. The fact the green colour signal seemed to be off makes me think it was that. Luckily you could turn it down.
    Also a few years ago a Scottish CZcamsr known as Cameron grey did this but with a European ps2. Might be good to watch as a curiosity

    • @kbhasi
      @kbhasi Před 2 lety +19

      Yeah, and if MJD sees this, what I can mention is that I remember someone posting instructions on how to make an adaptor that converts VGA sync-on-green to a more standard VGA connection with separate green and sync lines.

    • @weepingscorpion8739
      @weepingscorpion8739 Před 2 lety +7

      I was wondering if something was going to mention Cameron Grey, so here's me commenting on it to bump up this comment. :)

    • @c0rpse1
      @c0rpse1 Před 2 lety +2

      he needs to just get a CRT pc monitor, most support SoG

    • @camerongray1515
      @camerongray1515 Před 2 lety +36

      Hey, that's me! The sync separator I built used an LM1881N chip to provide separate sync signals to the monitor, otherwise all the monitors I tried would just stay in standby. It was actually while researching making this sync separator for use with my NeXTstation Turbo Color that I first came across PS2 Linux!
      Interesting to see a relatively modern Dell monitor in this video seemingly working fine without the separate sync signals, unless the cable itself contains a sync separator chip which is entirely possible as the PS2 multi out connector provides 5v which could power such a chip. In this case the issue isn't necessarily solvable with a sync separator since it looks like the monitor is interpreting the sync signals on the green channel as colour information which is causing the overall green hue. I experienced this with a Lenovo ThinkVision monitor but not the old HP one I ended up using in the video so I suspect it's possibly monitor dependant. That said, I saw some information online about making a circuit to strip the sync signals from the green video signal so that could help.

    • @NintendoGamer2600
      @NintendoGamer2600 Před rokem +1

      Yes. I also watched Cameron Gray's video years ago. I already knew the ps2 couldn't natively output the RGBHV format that most VGA monitors need in order to get a signal cause of all the stuff about retro consoles and video quality that I watched by My Life In Gaming.

  • @mchenrynick
    @mchenrynick Před 2 lety +6

    Knowing what you need when formatting the hard drive for a Linux installation. That's why I had purchased a book before I tried installing Ubuntu on my PC. It really helped me a lot with this part.

    • @svampebob007
      @svampebob007 Před rokem +1

      I taught my mom how to format a hard drive, now she daily drives gento on her fitbit

  • @jishan6992
    @jishan6992 Před rokem +5

    PlayStation 2 Linux disc looks cursed, something that shouldn't exist

  • @ptzzz
    @ptzzz Před 2 lety +324

    Knew that Linux existed for the PS2, but never seen it in action. The plug for Linode had me laughing hard as it was smooth while making fun of the misfortune when the PS2 didn't display anything initially haha.

    • @alwaysenkeilover
      @alwaysenkeilover Před 2 lety +2

      yeah same like 5 yrs ago I knew abt it was even cheaper at that time to but never took the time to search or watch a video about it. happy one of my favorite yters made a video abt it

    • @SchlongIslandIcedTea
      @SchlongIslandIcedTea Před 2 lety +3

      I was the guy who tried to install Linux on the slim after discovering the magic that is freemcboot, got my own iso, slid it on a USB, and tried. Failed. But still was super cool to be booting a Linux installer that was meant for the PS2

    • @SunIsLost
      @SunIsLost Před 2 lety

      lol

    • @SunIsLost
      @SunIsLost Před 2 lety

      @@alwaysenkeilover yes

    • @SunIsLost
      @SunIsLost Před 2 lety

      @@SchlongIslandIcedTea yea

  • @asdf-un9gs
    @asdf-un9gs Před 2 lety +61

    I love the PS2 component aesthetic (keyboard, mouse, hard drive, etc.)

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 Před 2 lety +3

      Kind of reminds you of the Atari 2600, doesn't it?

  • @noer7899
    @noer7899 Před 2 lety +9

    Next is "install linux on microwave!"

  • @Ali-sx7cn
    @Ali-sx7cn Před 2 lety

    Watching ur videos is like going on a adventure and i love it

  • @deusexmachinareznov4975
    @deusexmachinareznov4975 Před 2 lety +24

    I knew a guy who ran (?runs?) a quake server on one of these for the last twenty years.
    Imagine playing on a quake server for 20 years and it goes down, and you find out its been running on a PS2!

  • @jargon343
    @jargon343 Před 2 lety +109

    PlayStation 2 was my first console I ever played on! Didn’t even know you could install Linux on that! Also congrats on reaching almost 255k subs!

    • @hiRyan329329
      @hiRyan329329 Před 2 lety +1

      Pretty sure it mainly existed as another countermeasure to the import taxes on game consoles. The DVD drive was the other countermeasure. Label it as a DVD Player, Home Computer, or media center and you got a product that doesn't have to pay like 15% extra just to get it in stores (The Game Tax)

    • @chronosyndrome4095
      @chronosyndrome4095 Před 2 lety +1

      @@hiRyan329329 no, it exists because producing actual game console was borderline unfeasible in 200X and PS2 was always just a fancy BSD minipc with propertiaty periferals.

    • @hiRyan329329
      @hiRyan329329 Před 2 lety

      @@chronosyndrome4095 well do yourself a favor and look up PS2 console Tax or something like that and you'll see why in Europe every PS2 was meant to be bundled with Linux. In the End they lost the case and still had to pay the EU game console import tax though.

    • @chronosyndrome4095
      @chronosyndrome4095 Před 2 lety +1

      @@hiRyan329329 yeah, and every Amiga was meant to be bundled with AmigaOS - yet was able to run Linux as well. Maybe Amigas are gaming konsoles, masked as personal computers, too ? They aren't IBM PC compilant and runs propertiary hardware (including gamepads) + have tons of games, so...

    • @hiRyan329329
      @hiRyan329329 Před 2 lety

      @@chronosyndrome4095 I'm not saying it's the only reason it existed. I understand it's pretty close to a pc already and that's why it could run and they felt like letting people buy it. But it is evident that the reason it was bundles for EU consoles and as much effort was put into it was to avoid the tax an try and make more money off the PS2 in the EU

  • @bren.nan_
    @bren.nan_ Před 2 lety +3

    this video strongly encouraged me to learn linux and then get this and mess around with it this is so cool

  • @AeriaVelocity
    @AeriaVelocity Před 2 lety +809

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as PlayStation 2, is in fact, GNU/PlayStation 2. The PlayStation 2 is not a device unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functional GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs blah blah blah ed is the standard text editor, real programmers use butterflies
    edit: please stop taking this seriously lmao

  • @networkException
    @networkException Před 2 lety +160

    Did the harddrive contain those partitions initially? Exploring what was on there previously would have been a nice touch

    • @Lethaltail
      @Lethaltail Před 2 lety +7

      What's a preservation? smh

    • @YayWalterSullivan
      @YayWalterSullivan Před 2 lety +44

      Probably wouldn't have gotten very far without the previous user's login credentials anyway.

    • @networkException
      @networkException Před 2 lety +12

      @@Lethaltail I have to say my datahoarder self was screaming

    • @michelefarroni93
      @michelefarroni93 Před 2 lety +19

      @@YayWalterSullivan old linux releases have a lot of backdoors and working exploits

    • @Architector_4
      @Architector_4 Před 2 lety +15

      @@YayWalterSullivan
      You don't need to be able to log into a system to read the data on the hard drive it's installed on lol

  • @DiniduPerera
    @DiniduPerera Před 2 lety +61

    When you were going back and forth through the system preferences, I was surprised at how usable (not laggy) it seemed. Gimp crippling it is no surprise, but I imagine if you were able to install a package manager and a few basic apps you could possibly do some real work on it.
    The Xbox got executive sponsorship because Microsoft was afraid of losing its dominance. In the context of this, that fear makes more sense.

  • @JavCaRRTech
    @JavCaRRTech Před 2 lety +61

    I've been watching your videos every day for a whole week, these videos are really impressive
    Saludos desde México 🇲🇽

  • @randomprimary
    @randomprimary Před 2 lety +2

    you've combined two of my biggest interests into a banger of a video, thanks Michael!

  • @SunIsLost
    @SunIsLost Před 2 lety +3

    Finally! Another GREAT video from Michael MJD

  • @der.Schtefan
    @der.Schtefan Před rokem +3

    I was using GNUstep back then, and I had the same "experience" with GIMP. When I saw you changing the themes i shed a tear.

  • @NALTOdeluxe
    @NALTOdeluxe Před 2 lety +9

    This was always a fascinating thing to me. Great video!

  • @knuxthedee9874
    @knuxthedee9874 Před 2 lety +17

    Near the end of the video I forgot this was even happening on a PS2, it's kinda mind-boggling

  • @VoidPelt
    @VoidPelt Před 2 lety

    I’ve been waiting for this. Thought of doing it myself on a VM, but this works.

  • @anzhel3268
    @anzhel3268 Před 2 lety +2

    amazing content as always

  • @CosminCrihan
    @CosminCrihan Před 2 lety +25

    Oh my, this brings back so many memories.
    During faculty, I installed many flavours of Linux on my modded PS2, including a minimal version of Debian 5 I could get working from a burned DVD.
    I remember trying to install GCC on it to compile C code for the MIPS arch and try to run the executable. Guess what? Aptitude ran out of RAM and couldn't even generate the package dependency tree to be able to download GCC's required packages from the internet... wow.
    However, I could get BlackRhyno Linux to work! It closely resembles the official flavour, including the GUI and functionality of the system.
    Great job! Thanks for the video. Try BlackRhyno next :)

    • @milkyproduxions
      @milkyproduxions Před 2 lety +1

      Will more modern versions theoretically work like Arch or Gentoo?

    • @CosminCrihan
      @CosminCrihan Před 2 lety +4

      @@milkyproduxions unfortunately not. That Debian version I mentioned was optimized for the PS2 entirely, and still it was slow, it booted very slow and quickly ran out of memory. No swap available because it ran exclusively from the DVD drive.
      You won't be able to install modern versions for sure.

    • @anon_y_mousse
      @anon_y_mousse Před rokem

      @@CosminCrihan I'd love to see someone cross compile and run LFS on it. Any chance you'd be willing?

  • @MrKillswitch88
    @MrKillswitch88 Před 2 lety +45

    Would have been nice had the PS2 had more ram similarly to the xbox at the time along with a hard drive from the git go rather than as an addon.

    • @cellardoor9882
      @cellardoor9882 Před 2 lety +3

      Indeed, too bad it wasnt powerfull enough for doom 3 or high life 2

    • @at-cj2iy
      @at-cj2iy Před 2 lety +3

      The developers had a 64MB ram PS2 units which ran games much better but it was still 300mhz cpu

  • @anthonyburgy3432
    @anthonyburgy3432 Před 2 lety +1

    thanks for subtitles !

  • @CRYPTiCEXiLE
    @CRYPTiCEXiLE Před 2 lety +10

    awesome i remember in the 2000 18 years old wanted this on my ps2 but never can afford it as it was a expensive kit even back in the day.. but thanks for showing me how it was to experience it. great video.

  • @surprisedpotato
    @surprisedpotato Před 2 lety +17

    Am I the only one that imagines MJD looks like the Windows XP bobble head?

  • @justthisweeb
    @justthisweeb Před 2 lety +9

    the moment I saw linux I clicked.
    it was literally seconds since I got the notification

  • @OllieFallon10
    @OllieFallon10 Před rokem +2

    My school's after school care had a Playstation 2 connected to a projector with a AV cable to RCA cable connected to the projector and every afternoon I'd hear that Playstation 2 start-up sound! Soooo nostalgic! We'd play Skate 2 all afternoon. I don't know how they got their hands on a Playstation 2 in 2019 though.

    • @animeloveer97
      @animeloveer97 Před 9 měsíci

      Probably had it forever or it belongs to a teacher. Up until like mid 2010s they were really cheap and easy to find like I got many of them I had (we somehow went thru twelve between launch day- 2013 lol dogs pulling them off the table killed a bunch of em) for 20$ max. They were a dime a dozen as they are one of the most sold consoles of all time

  • @spokiee2000
    @spokiee2000 Před 2 lety

    This was great! Thanks for sharing this

  • @jonglass
    @jonglass Před 2 lety +122

    Yellow Dog Linux was, I believe, designed to run on the PS2. I wonder if you could find a copy and install that? But having Window Maker as the Window Manager for the official PS2 Linux is awesome!

    • @tyg3rpro
      @tyg3rpro Před 2 lety +4

      I might still have my install file, don't remember as I haven't used my PS2 in some time

    • @mikoyangurovich
      @mikoyangurovich Před 2 lety +14

      Yellow Dog was actually for the PS3, I believe. Might be mistaken, though.

    • @zekicay
      @zekicay Před 2 lety +7

      Yellowdog was for PPC Macs but also worked on PS2 and PS3 if I remember correctly.

    • @xnonsuchx
      @xnonsuchx Před 2 lety +14

      Yellow Dog Linux was for PowerPC and IBM POWER systems, so mostly for PowerMacs and the PS3 for any home users. I still have it on my 'phat' 60GB PS3 (I bought a slim PS3 to continue gaming with).

    • @tyg3rpro
      @tyg3rpro Před 2 lety +2

      Now that I thought about it, Yellow Dog was for PPC Mac, Black Rhino iirc is what the PS2 Linux distro was called

  • @RetroSpector78
    @RetroSpector78 Před 2 lety +11

    Some Linux, Sony Playstation and Michael MJD storytelling… an excellent way to kick off the weekend if you ask me. Greetings from Belgium !

  • @TheLORDMJ
    @TheLORDMJ Před 2 lety +9

    Nice video. I can't believe that this was an official thing from Sony.
    I think you should consider doing a followup video where you look at all the applications included so we can get a felling on what computing tasks are possible on the system.
    Maybe you can also look at all the settings and see how customizable the system is. That goofiness at the end with that piece of "art" you created was very fun. :)
    You could also do a bit of stress testing and try opening and using as many programs as you can at once to see how stable the system is.
    And if you are feeling really adventurous for a whole another video, try installing this Linux distro in the PS2 emulator, PCSX2. Not really sure if that is possible, but it would be interesting to find out. And with its inevitable problems and weird issues that would pop up, it would make for a very fun and typical MJD video. ;)

    • @Wesmoen
      @Wesmoen Před 4 měsíci

      Ken Kuturagi was really a tech fan. His ideas of architecture is interesting, yet annoying for devs.

  • @saltyowl3229
    @saltyowl3229 Před 2 lety +1

    I clicked on this fully expecting some amount of a hack to bypass PS2 VRM and such but this was so much better. This is sick

  • @pnnytx
    @pnnytx Před 2 lety +28

    With only 32MB of RAM, it's pretty tough to play with even back then

    • @ry44anrobot16
      @ry44anrobot16 Před 2 lety +4

      @@streetinfamy 64 mb should be a goal

    • @thiekus
      @thiekus Před 2 lety +2

      @@streetinfamy You can't technically change soldered onboard RAM without replacing whole board. Also PS2 RAM is using proprietary RDRAM instead of standard SDRAM. You probably need PS2 Test debugging or PS2 Tool devkit console which have 64MB or 128MB. The only why iPhone storage succeed because eMMC is replaceable and you still needs tricky amount of workarounds.

    • @thiekus
      @thiekus Před 2 lety +1

      @@streetinfamy RDRAM (or Rambus) is proprietary and not much use back then because it was expensive. AFAIK, it used to be RAM module for late Pentium 3 and very early Pentium 4 Intel's board chipsets. And it just failed, dropped after DDR SDRAM (or just DDR1 we know today) was more viable and cheaper. Even so, you'll need find exact compatible RAM ICs, insane soldering skill, patient, and if you lucky that board chipset is capable to accept higher capacity.

  • @5Dale65
    @5Dale65 Před rokem +3

    An old friend of mine had a PS2 back in the day. We heard about the Linux option, but it was too expensive and/or unobtainable in our country back then. However rumours said you could run a web browser on it, and connect it to the internet using the network adapter, and surf the web like from a PC.

  • @TheUnfinishedPotato
    @TheUnfinishedPotato Před 2 lety

    Great find bro this video is sick. keep at it

  • @tristan6509
    @tristan6509 Před rokem +2

    The fact that you got it running on an LCD is a miracle, the PS2 (and PS3) outputs a normal sync signal in 240p and 480i, but for some reason it only outputs sync on green on 480p mode. It works fine on most CRTs but LCDs don't like that
    This is why if you're playing games in 480p or higher it is recommended to use the component cable instead, thankfully most PS2 games only output 480i.

  • @veyselerden72
    @veyselerden72 Před 2 lety +3

    I’d like to see more modern linux videos from you

  • @4nzo807
    @4nzo807 Před 2 lety +6

    yall gotta subscribe to him i mean he spent money on this vid just to entertain us what a legend.

  • @BritishPeanut
    @BritishPeanut Před měsícem

    Great video. Thank you.

  • @MrSevenEleven
    @MrSevenEleven Před rokem +5

    I had gentoo on my xbox and actually used it quite a bit with this USB hub i spliced to a controller cable, that was neat.
    If I remember correctly, I believe the Xbox-specific distro was called "GentooX"
    My Xbox was my daily driver for a little while lmao, surprisingly stable and quick.

  • @LiveWireBT
    @LiveWireBT Před 2 lety +1

    The entire thing with its external HDD and PCMCIA looks so cumbersome, yet sophisticated. I guess I would have fallen in love with it back in the days and many probably did.

    • @at-cj2iy
      @at-cj2iy Před 2 lety +1

      There was also a internal HDD to plug it inside console to play final fantasy online which was required for updates

  • @jaiden051
    @jaiden051 Před 2 lety +3

    That harddrive enclosure looks sick

  • @furkancatanaoglu
    @furkancatanaoglu Před 2 lety +3

    Your videos sound like therapy to me, you're the king(By the way, I've had a covid dec, I'll get well soon)

    • @mikimouse3001
      @mikimouse3001 Před 2 lety

      Yeah he's good with the narration, a similar channel is sharopolis btw.

  • @Coxis67
    @Coxis67 Před 2 lety +3

    I was expecting to see more than GIMP, are you making more videos? Perhaps installing a modern browser and surf the web, taking a look at the cpu and ram in the terminal, trying to do a yum update to see if repos are still alive, running an ftp server or something! It would be really interesting to see how this old machine copes with that.

  • @Erikih
    @Erikih Před rokem +1

    Felt like a lucky guy that I found a PAL linux kit being sold in the country I live. Took me a few hour driving, but it was worth it!

  • @Arthur-bk9wn
    @Arthur-bk9wn Před 2 lety +19

    i see a 30 min mjd video, i click. As always, top notch content!

  • @jorgealain5126
    @jorgealain5126 Před 2 lety +3

    i remember reading monthly the Brazilian version of the Playstation magazine between 2002 until 2007 when i owned just a humble slim ps1 and got fascinated about Linux and the capabilities of running plenty of day-to-day apps like a normal pc on the ps2. Seeing this video today brings me so much memories.

  • @ps2slim513
    @ps2slim513 Před 2 lety

    Thanks. I needed that

  • @Baylough.Technologies

    What an AWESOME project
    Thanks for the Nostalgia as always brother!

  • @ehabl8816
    @ehabl8816 Před 2 lety

    Loved the video

  • @Raqexz
    @Raqexz Před 2 lety +10

    2051: Installing Windows 6969 on a microwave

  • @dreammfyre
    @dreammfyre Před 2 lety +19

    I don’t think you need to install mod chips these days. PS2s are very easy to soft mod. You do have to disc swap first tho(I think?), or buy a memory card with the soft mod installed on it.

    • @NinjaRunningWild
      @NinjaRunningWild Před 2 lety +2

      This Linux is extremely picky. Anything you do that isn’t “by the letter” will almost certainly fail.

    • @BenignStatue71
      @BenignStatue71 Před 2 lety +6

      With a network adapter and an HDD, you can create a FreeHDDBoot drive that you can use to install FreeMCBoot from, so you don't need to open the PS2 to do disc swaps or pay for anyone else to write a memory card for you if you'd be using a network adapter and internal HDD anyway.

  • @jpsrandom6943
    @jpsrandom6943 Před 2 lety

    Ps2 is not my childhood but a good part of my teenage years, gotta say I love it, Sony Is one of my favorite brands, and the JDM has wilder stuff related to the console.
    Good stuff man, I love this kind of content, I'm a new sub btw, greetings from Colombia

  • @ChiEKKUsama
    @ChiEKKUsama Před 2 lety +1

    I would love to see a video trying to update the kernel and get more modern apps running on this.

  • @AWalYT
    @AWalYT Před 2 lety +5

    Never got a kit because they've been damn expensive for as long as I can remember, but I've had success getting the mipsel build of Debian Jessie up and running on the homebrewn kernel. It's a bit of a pain to get there, but I managed to make it work alongside other PS2 things installed to the HDD, which is a nice touch I suppose...

  • @Oosystem
    @Oosystem Před 2 lety +5

    I like the vga text mode being simulated in software I suppose :).

  • @commandercody235
    @commandercody235 Před rokem

    Cool video, and if i get Linux and do the setup, would i be able to acces the ps2 normally like the ps2 menus and play ps2 games

  • @xbennoenchen
    @xbennoenchen Před rokem

    is this just me or does the button clicking during the installation look so satisfying?

  • @sacleocheaterz
    @sacleocheaterz Před 2 lety +3

    What perfect timing, I've just picked up one of these running Linux with a working install from 2003 on it but I haven't had the time to fully explore it yet. Am hoping its got some juicy unusual stuff on there from an ex game dev.

  • @D.G.M.
    @D.G.M. Před 2 lety +22

    GIMP may have changed many things in 20 years, but this old version still looks very familiar.

  • @stray_cosmonaut
    @stray_cosmonaut Před 2 lety

    @Mjd what about a video showcasing internet connectivity? will it be able to download/update the OS or install patches etc?

  • @nc7807
    @nc7807 Před 9 měsíci

    That Linode segue was actually impressive.

  • @stbagn
    @stbagn Před 2 lety +14

    The green tint on the VGA monitor is likely because the PS2 outputs RGB with sync on green and some monitors can’t handle it properly. An Extron sync processor might help here.

  • @CarletoGamesCGYT674
    @CarletoGamesCGYT674 Před 2 lety +30

    I already played this one, 7/10, the browser installing mission was kinda hard.

    • @DigitEgal
      @DigitEgal Před 2 lety +3

      Whats the Endboss?

    • @CarletoGamesCGYT674
      @CarletoGamesCGYT674 Před 2 lety +12

      @@DigitEgal It was Bill Gates, you get to the Microsoft Empire, after passing the kernel update phase. I couldn't pass it, because if you fail, it updates your memory card and erases all of it.

    • @user-YES-0ffical
      @user-YES-0ffical Před 2 lety +2

      IGN be like:

  • @smyry
    @smyry Před 2 lety

    Great video!

  • @blindsniper35
    @blindsniper35 Před 11 měsíci

    I remember doing this as a kid with the hard drive adapter and a modded memory card. (I think you have a mess with one of the sectors and it caused things to autoload)
    I also remember installing gentoo on an Xbox 360 and and Ubuntu on a PS3. (With and without all coreson unlock)
    I also specifically remembering never doing anything else with them besides getting it to work and maybe browsing the web. This was an interesting learning experience and an exercise in extreme frustration at times. It would have helped a lot if I knew more back then and have the right tools to help debug the problems. But I guess that was half the point and I now have the tools that I'm older.
    Edit: Now that I think about it I did try to run Doom on all of them. I can't remember which ones it worked on.

  • @CaelThunderwing
    @CaelThunderwing Před 2 lety +5

    the US & UK FFXI Kit Hard Disk could Also back then be used for Linux, but outside FFXI there wasnt many games that used the Hard Drive if you had one, outside i think Socom?
    the Green Issue is because that PS2 Linux dosent output a *Standard* VGA signal, but a "Sync on Green" Signal

  • @JuanxDlol
    @JuanxDlol Před 2 lety +7

    Question: Can you install Windows NT 4 on it though ? i remember reading rumors that NT4 supported the ps2 processor family.

    • @mvShooting
      @mvShooting Před 2 lety +5

      Not exactly. Windows NT 4 supported MIPS, the CPU family on the PS2, but it does not explicitly support the game console.

  • @DemonArshan
    @DemonArshan Před rokem

    Michael you are best window/tech channel both fun and entertaining. ✌️

  • @MindsEyeTHPS
    @MindsEyeTHPS Před 2 lety

    Love the Linus Tech Tips-style segue into this vid's sponsor at 6:59 😂

  • @balthron
    @balthron Před 2 lety +2

    As far as I can remember the PS2 CPU only had 32k of L1 cache with no L2 memory at all. Watching the time it takes Gimp to render your PNG file gave a strong Gen1 1 Celeron 266 MHZ energy.

  • @GIUDY11
    @GIUDY11 Před 2 lety +7

    Loved this video, would love if you could investigate if PS3 Linux is still accessible in any way

  • @jdubxi11
    @jdubxi11 Před 9 měsíci

    This is the second how did I never hear of this moment I've had today. I wish I'd known about this back then, I did the old linux on PS3 thing and thought it had not been done before. So nostalgic now lol

  • @toastyyy2458
    @toastyyy2458 Před 2 lety +2

    I wonder if you could install modern programs on it and basically make it a modern linux machine? like install a different desktop environment, modern web browser, etc. That would be pretty cool to see.

  • @Flanders989
    @Flanders989 Před 2 lety +2

    Now this seems like it'd be unixporn worthy. I had no idea this was even a thing, pretty amazing.

  • @r3mpuh
    @r3mpuh Před 2 lety +5

    Best GIMP Tutorial.

  • @TheB0FH
    @TheB0FH Před 2 lety

    Would love to see a follow up video, how great can you update the software on the PS2 Linux build

  • @0bamo0
    @0bamo0 Před měsícem

    9:48 the little figurine in the corner is trying to steel my soul and I'm all into it.

  • @realchoodle
    @realchoodle Před 2 lety +18

    Has the ISO been ripped off the disk? I really want to mess with this myself.

  • @jonasdatlas4668
    @jonasdatlas4668 Před 2 lety +24

    MJD + retro hardware + Linuxing all the things =

  • @Luca-N
    @Luca-N Před 2 lety

    thanks for the video

  • @jimmyscott5144
    @jimmyscott5144 Před 2 lety

    What do you use to edit videos? An iPad, gosh get on my ps2 running Linux level dude.
    Side node I wonder if you use terminal to install Ubuntu or use terminal to erase the main ps hdd

  • @VanArtic
    @VanArtic Před 2 lety +9

    Linux on a Playstation 3 and Playstation 4 would make for extremely good followups!

    • @ZackSNetwork
      @ZackSNetwork Před 2 lety +4

      It would be cool on the PS5.

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 Před 2 lety

      It's not official, but Linux on PS4 has been done. Can't remember the name of the talk about it, but it did reveal some weird design choices that make you wonder if an executive at Sony gave a bunch of engineers a case of booze and said "Design me the next Playstation!"

  • @TheCynicalAutist
    @TheCynicalAutist Před 2 lety +7

    Man, I still have my PS2. xD

  • @DumStrung
    @DumStrung Před 2 lety

    I just noticed that the right click context menu looks really like the menu from the old school game Uplink, it takes me back.

  • @ddniUK
    @ddniUK Před 2 lety +1

    Really needs more Linux testing. Programs, internet, web browsing etc.