PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD 457
jones_supa writes "This discovery comes nicely alongside the celebration of FreeBSD's 20th birthday, for all the UNIX nerds. The operating system powering the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a Sony spin of FreeBSD 9.0. It's not a huge surprise FreeBSD is being used over Linux, in part due to the more liberal licensing. The PlayStation 4 is x86-64 based now rather than Cell-based, which makes it easier to use FreeBSD. BSDs in general currently lack manufacturer supported full-feature AMD graphics driver, which leads to the conclusion that Sony and AMD have likely co-developed a discrete driver for the PS4. Some pictures of the development kit boot loader (GRUB) have been published too."
War of the Operating Systems (Score:5, Funny)
PS4 is on FreeBSD, X1 is on a Windows-kernel abomination, and the Steam box is going to be Linux. Interesting. Any chance the WiiU has secret Mac lineage to complete this?
Re:License war commencing... (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft should go with Xenix (Score:5, Funny)
Confirm THAT, Netcraft (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:License war commencing... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not biting. ;D
Re:A great win for FreeBSD (Score:5, Funny)
This man is in denial.
Well, to be fair, maybe they'll kick up the source code to github for a rootkit?
Re:License war commencing... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:License war commencing... (Score:5, Funny)
There aren't even many Linux Zealots left.
No need to gloat when you've conquered the world.
Re:License war commencing... (Score:5, Funny)
I heard on the internets that version 6 of Emacs was going to be called VI
Re:War of the Operating Systems (Score:5, Funny)
Unrouted wii ends up splattering all over the floor and on your shoes.
Re:License war commencing... (Score:5, Funny)
I heard that Steve Jobs used to use VI. He switched to EMACS couldn't kick the habit of hitting the i key before typing.
Re:License war commencing... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A great win for FreeBSD (Score:2, Funny)
let H_M be the set of idiots who think that freedom in particular and/or ethics in general are a subset of mathematics.