[nycbug-talk] BSD on PS4

[Steven Kreuzer]

On 6/25/13 1:58 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
> Pete Wright:
>> On 06/25/13 07:36, Siraaj Khandkar wrote:
>>> http://www.vgleaks.com/some-details-about-playstation-4-os-development/
>> you know i saw that yesterday and was thinking of forwarding it along.
>> but from those screen shots i didn't see anything pointing to the fact
>> that their systems is based on FreeBSD-9.0.
>>
>> having said that - i would definitely not be surprised to see some sort
>> of BSD based OS on these guys.
> it does, however, add to the relatively short list of systems running a
> BSD that we know of.  And we'll never know the long list.
I am not quite sure why the blogosphere is exploding with this story but
CellOS, which is the operating system on the Playstation 3 is also
thought to be based on FreeBSD. The PSP and Vita are also rumored to be
running some version of FreeBSD as well.

Also, a patch for avx support on FreeBSD was sent in not to long ago by
someone from Sony
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2011-March/013744.html)
>
> clause 4: you must put <h2>We use a BSD</h2> in the footer of your homepage.
>
Might be worthwhile to start a page in the FreeBSD wiki on things known
or suspected to be running FreeBSD in one way or the other. I think some
Samsung SmartTV also runs FreeBSD under the hood.