From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 23 09:25:48 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1A7BC262B for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:25:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp1.irishbroadband.ie (smtp1.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A619D1941 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:25:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from [89.127.62.20] (helo=smtp.lan.sohara.org) by smtp1.irishbroadband.ie with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1bc7xh-0007YU-Kt for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:25:37 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.87 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1bc7y2-0004OI-5R for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:25:58 +0000 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:25:36 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: game machine based on FreeBSD? Message-Id: <20160823102536.97e3724416f14a037a8d1424@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20160806140306.bbd534544c5dc14c7d7c3317@sohara.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:25:49 -0000 On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:05:41 +0200 Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith > wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:24:30 +0200 > > CeDeROM wrote: > > > >> Playstation4 runs on FreeBSD :-) > > > > I'll bet you can't get a FreeBSD PC to play any PS4 games > > though. > > > > Uhm..that's interesting. > I've got a few months to decide which game machine to get for my son, > and I was wondering to build one by myself. Knowing that PS4 is based > on FreeBSD is a good news, even if I suspect it's true that porting > some games to FreeBSD pure machine will not be so easy... Getting at the FreeBSD inside the PS4 isn't easy either, I'm not even sure it's possible. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith