As promised, Geohot aka George Hotz has found a work around for the removal of OtherOS: Custom Firmware. Geohot has dubbed his firmware “3.21OO”. Based upon his blog entry, it won’t require opening the PS3, and will be possible by restoring a custom generated pup file. From his blog: It's not any sort of version string change; I would have added something showing off the new features of 3.21, but oh wait, there aren't any. 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. ...