PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD [Slashdot]

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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." http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=PlayStation+4+Will+Be+Running+Modified +FreeBSD%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F17wMRoE) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F13%2F06%2F24%2F000250%2Fplaystation-4-will-be-running-modified-freebsd%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfac ebook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/06/24/000250/playstation-4-will-be-running-modified-freebsd?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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