(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); According to a report from VGLeaks, Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4 console will use a heavily modified version of the Linux operating system FreeBSD 9. According to the site, the PS4 will use a custom version of Free BSD 9 created by Sony called Orbis OS.

The PS4 uses an AMD eight-core APU with Radeon graphics, but there aren't any publicly available Catalyst drivers for any BSD operating system right now. The open-source driver ported from Linux with Radeon KMS and Gallium3D is still in a primitive state, according to the site. The speculation is that Sony has worked very closely with AMD to develop their own graphics driver for the PlayStation 4 with FreeBSD or ported the Catalyst code-base to BSD.

While this is interesting news, it is likely that Linux fans who were burned by the introduction of the OtherOS feature in the PS3 that was later removed by Sony over security issues has not been forgotten by people who wanted to run Linux on that platform. It is also highly unlikely that Sony will offer such a feature with the PS4...

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PS3 used a Unix based OS did it not ?
Also I believe it used the same freeBSD but a custom version for the console.

yep
Could have PM me this.
Looking forward to unix on the PS4 it worked get last time.

Did you know that you can install PS3 OS into any machine base like XBOX, PC, POCKET PC etc... you just need the right tools LIKE ****FTP to transfer the OS program straight across to any hardware machine....
Ive done it and now ive got a PS3 working on a QUAD CORE 3.0 CPU with 8GB RAM, 1GB GPU, and took the HDD from the PS3 and presto it works. Only with a few slight modifications ive done over the years and hay you can put it on any machine. My new secret "BETA MJ" project is trying to get the PS3 OS to start from an Android phone. the only problem is that I need to buy the latest androids to test them...