No More Ubuntu 11.04 PS3 CD Images

Posted by hanuca on Dec 14, 2010 12:48 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Canonical, through Colin Watson, announced a few minutes ago that starting with today, December 14th, they will no longer build ISO images for the PlayStation 3 gaming console.

Apparently, the Ubuntu developers were still cooking daily builds of the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) port for PS3. But with today's announcement, PlayStation 3 owners who love Linux, especially the Ubuntu flavor, will have to look for another operating system designed for the PowerPC architecture.

It appears that the process of creating these daily ISO images is very time consuming and no one is interested in taking over the development. Therefore, starting with Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Canonical will no longer provide CD images for the popular PlayStation 3 console, and the PowerPC architecture.

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