PlayStation 4 Runs A Heavily Modded FreeBSD 9.0 Named As Orbis OS
Sony’s <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/playstation-4-price-in-india.68456">Playstation 4 Price In India</a> had managed to win the war of consoles hands down at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), with its used games policy and competitive pricing and making sure that a console remains primarily a gaming device rather than making it a home entertainment solution like the <a href="https://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/microsoft-xbox-one-is-a-powerful-improved-and-stylish-successor-to-xbox-360.68096">Microsoft Xbox One Is A Powerful, Improved and Stylish Successor to Xbox 360</a>. Sony's commitment in making the PlayStation based on open platforms has now been confirmed by the folks over at #-Link-Snipped-# who when playing around with the console’s software development kit (SDK) discovered that the PlayStation 4 runs Orbis OS which is a modified version of the FreeBSD 9.0. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Freebsd</a> is modular kernel based UNIX like open source operating system. FreeBSD could be easily installed on the PS4 because of Sony’s decision to move over the x86 architecture. #-Link-Snipped-# that FreeBSD was preferred over Linux OS is because of the former’s liberal licensing policies.
One of the reasons why the discovery of FreeBSD under the hood of PlayStation 4 comes as a surprise to the gaming community is because originally FreeBSD does not have an AMD Catalyst driver for any of its versions and since the PS4 has an eight core AMD APU with Radeon Graphics it would have been impossible to use FreeBSD. So it is evident that Sony closely working with AMD must have developed a custom driver or at least managed to port the Catalyst code-base to the FreeBSD.
One of the reasons why the discovery of FreeBSD under the hood of PlayStation 4 comes as a surprise to the gaming community is because originally FreeBSD does not have an AMD Catalyst driver for any of its versions and since the PS4 has an eight core AMD APU with Radeon Graphics it would have been impossible to use FreeBSD. So it is evident that Sony closely working with AMD must have developed a custom driver or at least managed to port the Catalyst code-base to the FreeBSD.
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