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`Sony's PlayStation 4 Is Running Modified FreeBSD 9
`Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 23 June 2013 at 03:15 PM EDT. 243 Comments
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`The operating system at the heart of Sony's PlayStation 4 is FreeBSD 9.0.
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`It's been exposed that 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.
`
`It's a bit of a surprise to see FreeBSD being used though when at the heart of the Sony PS4 is an AMD
`eight-core APU with Radeon graphics. There isn't a Catalyst driver available for any BSD operating
`system right now and the open-source driver ported from Linux with Radeon KMS and Gallium3D is still
`in a primitive state. Thus, Sony in cooperation with AMD must have developed their own graphics driver
`for the PlayStation 4 with FreeBSD or at least ported the Catalyst code-base to BSD.
`
`The information of FreeBSD 9.0 powering the PlayStation 4 was shared at VGLeaks.com and based
`upon a second-gen development kit for the forthcoming console.
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`Sony's PlayStation 4 Is Running Modified FreeBSD 9
`Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 23 June 2013 at 03:15 PM EDT. 243 Comments
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`The operating system at the heart of Sony's PlayStation 4 is FreeBSD 9.0.
`
`It's been exposed that 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.
`
`It's a bit of a surprise to see FreeBSD being used though when at the heart of the Sony PS4 is an AMD
`eight-core APU with Radeon graphics. There isn't a Catalyst driver available for any BSD operating
`system right now and the open-source driver ported from Linux with Radeon KMS and Gallium3D is still
`in a primitive state. Thus, Sony in cooperation with AMD must have developed their own graphics driver
`for the PlayStation 4 with FreeBSD or at least ported the Catalyst code-base to BSD.
`
`The information of FreeBSD 9.0 powering the PlayStation 4 was shared at VGLeaks.com and based
`upon a second-gen development kit for the forthcoming console.
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`With Linux 5.12
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`With The Ryzen 9 5950X
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`Big Files Much Faster
`FreeBSD Continues Work On Ridding Its Base Of
`GPL-Licensed Software
`Radeon Vulkan "RADV" Driver Saw Many
`Optimizations This Week For Mesa 21.0
`AMD + Older Intel CPUs To See Much Faster
`AES-NI XTS Crypto Performance On Linux 5.12
`KDE Will Reflow Text In Konsole On Window
`Resizing, Kirigami Icons Now Use Less RAM
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