Re:FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System
by loeg on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:25PM
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Sony thoroughly hack up their kernel for the PS4. They just don’t care about the cost of doing it again on a newer FreeBSD base.
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Re:FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System
by throw0101a on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:59AM
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Probably because they don't care with stay current: the PS4 isn't going to change much after initial development, so why should the base OS? Similarly now that the PS5 has shipped, I doubt there will be much OS development there.
If FreeBSD (or Linux) weren't around, then they'd simply purchase/license an embedded OS (QNX?) and use that.