Looks like the PS3 hacking community is not taking a long holiday. A member of the ps3-hacks.com community, diabolix, has managed to successfully compile an Xbox 360 controller driver for Fedora Core 5.

Some of the more inexperienced PS3 gamers may not know what this means exactly. Well, if you're running Linux on your PS3, you can now use your Xbox 360 controller with it. According to ps3-hacks, it has been tested with Snes9x and Doom under FC5-PPC. You can download this driver by clicking HERE.

You need to copy this installer to you PS3's hard drive Linux partition and connect your controller via USB. Then run "install-xbox360-driver.sh" from the terminal, enter your root password (only if you aren't root already) and you can use the Xbox 360 controller on your PS3.

Note that this only works under Linux and you can't use the Xbox 360 controller to play PS3 games. Sony needs to release some information about the driver framework for their firmware for it to work for PS3 games, according to diabolix.

He also mentions that the PS3 and Xbox 360 controllers are different internally and that he doubts that this thing can actually happen. All the PS3's buttons can measure how much pressure you are applying to them, the 360 controller can only measure the trigger buttons. Racing games rely on this, you know that the harder you press the brake button, the harder you brake.