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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 by zkirill on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:12AM (#11419954)
Sony's Playstation 3 & 4 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_system_software and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 by znpy on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:28AM (#11422113)
Playstations run a very heavily modified and locked down version of FreeBSD.
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Re:FreeBSD 10.3 by PeCaN on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:51AM (#11422805)
PS3 did—I believe PS4 is not nearly as heavily modified[1]. It is certainly locked down though, at least after the early PS3s where you could, say, install Linux and build a HPC cluster[2].

1. Mostly from people who've hacked it; https://cturt.github.io/ps4.html seems to suggest it's a relatively stock FreeBSD kernel with some added system calls and a possibly heavily modified NetBSD userland.

2. http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercompute...

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