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zurn on Sept 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: SteamOS

Has there ever been any confirmation for the "PS3 runs FreeBSD" rumor? I've just seen FreeBSD mentioned on Sony's page listing open source components, along with stuff like expat and freetype. They've probably just lifted some bits from FreeBSD.

gsnedders on Sept 23, 2013 [–]

Hell, it could be the old Win NT thing of using the network code. That hardly constitutes "using BSD".

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