Here's your Linux-booting PS4, says fail0verflow

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 4, 2016 1:37 PM EDT
The Register; By Richard Chirgwin
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There's a long way to go before it becomes an “anyone can do this” hack, but games console tinkerers fail0verflow have replicated their PlayStation 2 work, getting Linux to run on Sony's PlayStation 4. However, as they told the Chaos Computer Conference in Germany, their work is only useful on an older PS4, because the jailbreak vector, present on version 1.76 of the machine's firmware, is patched on later versions (a new machine would be running 3.11).

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