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Re:Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [vi... by jsight on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:57AM (#21334664)
That is a good point... I bet there is nothing else as powerful at the price point either. It would make an excellent Linux media server.
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Re:Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [vi... by wlesieutre on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @10:08AM (#21334750)
Sony advertised this as a feature of the PS3 called "OtherOS" and then got sued when they turned around and removed it with a software update.

Settlement was supposedly $65 but it looks like affected people got a whole $10 for their trouble: https://www.reddit.com/r/PS3/comments/9izcpm/has_anyone_rece...

There were some clusters made out of PS3s, presumably the operators kept these from updating, but they wouldn't be able to replace failed units with new ones anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/05/how-removing-ps3-linu...

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Re:Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [vi... by jsight on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @11:51AM (#21335861)
I remember that. It seems like there were some restrictions that held back performance in OtherOS mode, though. It was too bad that they didn't keep it up.
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Re:Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story [vi... by selectodude on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @01:39PM (#21336935)
You couldn't get GPU access. You had full access to the Cell BE though.
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