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PS3 and Nintendo Switch OS use FreeBSD components.
by user3939382 2mo ago
PS3 and Nintendo Switch OS use FreeBSD components.
- bas 2mo agoDitto for PS4 and PS5.
- soapdog 2mo agoIsn’t that choice mostly dictated by BSD license allowing them to keep things proprietary instead of GPL requiring them to release their changes?
- pjmlp 2mo agoYes a big part of that, is being able to design Orbis OS whatever they feel like without caring about upstream, same with using clang on the devkit.
- pjmlp 2mo agoUrban myth regarding the Switch, Nintendo uses its own in-house microkernel based OS. And Orbis OS uses as much FreeBSD as Android/ChromeOS use Linux, in what gets exposed to devs.