Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:45:48 -0500 From: Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: game machine based on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <86vayrp8ur.fsf@WorkBox.Home> In-Reply-To: <20160823102536.97e3724416f14a037a8d1424@sohara.org> References: <CAKoxK%2B56Fc3Pks6cCDOs394z5HxO5qmOo8u7j2iRSgnGk5CvMQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjntpoq_1kt_O%2BTMeNSXV5ERX2qWNkDKW61Sb_VUJBTxEA@mail.gmail.com> <20160806140306.bbd534544c5dc14c7d7c3317@sohara.org> <CAKoxK%2B52dgi01A=tqvxJFS7nW0-2XsKRVe4-iHa7vXq1gM31zw@mail.gmail.com> <20160823102536.97e3724416f14a037a8d1424@sohara.org>
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Steve O'Hara-Smith writes: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:05:41 +0200 > Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> >> wrote: >> > On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:24:30 +0200 >> > CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> wrote: >> > >> >> Playstation4 runs on FreeBSD :-) >> > >> > I'll bet you can't get a FreeBSD PC to play any PS4 games >> > though. >> > >> >> Uhm..that's interesting. >> I've got a few months to decide which game machine to get for my son, >> and I was wondering to build one by myself. Knowing that PS4 is based >> on FreeBSD is a good news, even if I suspect it's true that porting >> some games to FreeBSD pure machine will not be so easy... > > Getting at the FreeBSD inside the PS4 isn't easy either, I'm not > even sure it's possible. It's irrelevant. FreeBSD doesn't run the games. It runs the proprietary encoding and DRM software and speaks to the custom-made hardware that in turn run the games. Ask yourself how building a custom PC with FreeBSD on it would run Sony the millions of dollars it spent developing the thing. -- :: Brandon J. Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com :: -------------------------------------------------- :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
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