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Posted April 03, 2016
I was a PS3 early adopter. After their heinous betrayal with the firmware, I pretty much quit consoles entirely and regressed to my PC Master Race roots.

A pox on foolish babies who still support a company and buy it's products after they advertise features and then retroactively remove and criminalize them. I didn't go to community college to learn unix-like computing to submit to that bullcrap.
Posted April 04, 2016
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apehater: unfotunately, sony isn't nice. sony is microsoft but painted in a nice, calming blue color.
Yes, in short it is that. I'll admit that they can make some nice hardware. But nice? No. They are in my "do not feed" list.
Posted April 05, 2016
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Maighstir: As for the PS3, due to the fact that Sony offered "Other OS" (an official Linux distribution for the console) from the beginning, universities and institutions with a requirement for computational power bought many solely for that purpose because it was much cheaper than other solutions with similar power.

Thing is, Sony was selling the thing at a loss, intending to make money off games and services, but people using the hardware and Other OS for number crunching weren't going to buy games or subscribe to services and thus didn't contribute to Sony's income. Also, Other OS made it easier for crackers and hackers to get to understand the hardware and enable piracy. So, Sony disabled Other OS in a patch, and hasn't offered such an option for PS4 either, likely for the same reasons the stopped supporting it for PS3.

But people hack things just for the fun of it, because it's a challenge, and some people apparently got a kick out of getting Linux to run on the PS4.

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Essentially this, majestically summed out.
Posted April 05, 2016
new article about how to get linux to run on a ps4
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