About

Welcome to PS3 Bodega! Come on now, say it with me — Bo·de·ga!

My name is Bill Blake. In late 2006 I bought a Playstation 3 thinking I’d turn around and sell it on eBay. Turns out a few other people had the same idea. Once I realized I was too late in the game for that I planned on returning it.

Then I started reading the specs on the box … being an avid PC gamer, I hadn’t owned a game console since the original Playstation. Then I started reading online about how you could install Linux on it. It was too much to resist!

My first console was an Atari 2600, then we got a Commodore 64 and I was hooked on computers. I got the C-128, then the Amiga, then I went to DOS and Windows 3.1, and so on … though I owned or at least played most of the game consoles released over the years I always preferred “computer games” over “console games.”

So I’m happy to use the PS3 as both a game console and a computer in one. In this blog I plan to describe what I’m doing with it, and how, although there won’t always be a clear reason why. I think I enjoy learning more about Linux more than anything else.