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PlayStation 4 Has Been Hacked to Run Gentoo Linux - Video

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Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Believe it or not, it would appear that a hacking group that goes by the name of Fail0verflow managed to hack Sony's PlayStation 4 (PS4) gaming console to run a Linux kernel-based operating system.

We can't help but notice that the version of the GNU/Linux operating system used for hacking PlayStation 4 is the famous Gentoo, running the next-gen OpenRC init system.

However, it looks like the latest systemd 228 init system is also used, and they're using the lightweight Xfce desktop environment, along with Linux kernel 4.4 LTS RC6.

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