On January 30, 2002, Akihiro IIJIMA sent me the following:
> SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE RELEASE OF LINUX FOR
> PLAYSTATION(R)2 "Linux (for PlayStation(R)2) " Release 1.0 for Linux
> Developers
>   http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/020130e.pdf

Here's a similar story about it:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-30-2002/0001658223&EDATE=

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