One of the biggest features of the PS3 at least for me is the ability to share your media library to the PS3 and display it on your TV in full HD quality!  How do you do this ?  Well in my case my media files, music, photos and movies are stored on my linux system.  After some searching around I found a Linux utility, ushare which allows me to do this.  Ushare will allow you to share your media files to the PS3 using the UPnP protocol and act as a media server.  The same thing can be done in Windows Media player if you are so inclined.

The install on Fedora was as simple as “yum install ushare” and then run the server and point it to your media files.  Eg “ushare -c /media”.  You just have to run the “search for media servers” on your PS3 and there you go… all your photos, music and movies on your TV.   Only drawback I found was that using the wireless was too slow and caused slowdown when watching divx movies so I have opted for using a 100 Mbit cable connection which works flawlessly for video playback.  Even dvd playback works fine and loads fast.  A Gigabit LAN would be ideal for this kinda setup but for now I am happy.