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Re:Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video] by mmozeiko on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @11:33PM (#10816132)
People were not running Linux on PS3 for desktop/server usage. They were running it there for scientific computations. This was before GPGPU (cuda/opencl) became better price/performance choice.
Re:Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video] by chejazi on Thursday December 31, 2015 @12:14AM (#10816300)
Interesting. I found more about this on Wikipedia [0]. As a tech hobbyist with a PS3 in my teens, I was genuinely interested in a desktop replacement. I shared this interest with others in my cohort at the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster