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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by smoldesu on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:04AM (#36677410)
Linux actually ships on Deck. FreeBSD kernels do not ship or likely even run OOB on Playstation hardware.
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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by mkl on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:01AM (#36680369)
FreeBSD kernels ship and run on PS4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software

Not sure about PS5.

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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by smoldesu on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:42PM (#36684508)
> The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0 which was released on January 12, 2012.[6][7]

That doesn't mean it's running BSD. For example, MacOS runs a non-BSD kernel with lots of BSD networking code added on-top. It is not a BSD-based Operating System but it does use BSD code to create it's environment. I would not for a single second believe that the PS4 runs an unmodified FreeBSD kernel. There is just no upstream code to support this claim.

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