Will Linux on the ps5 be back?

God I hope so. Some of my fondest professional memories were my early Navy days, hacking together PS3's into a big ol cluster

Edit: Reading through the exploit, looks like linux compatability for older (non 13.6) is possible. 13.6 needs a new hypervisor exploit.

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keyringlight 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Going back a few years to covid lockdowns, work from home exploding and a shortage of computers, I thought the mirror image of that was something MS should have tried. Enable a variant of windows on the xbox (probably locked down) so people can plug in keyboard/mouse and do some desktop tasks on the recently released consoles, and it'd also serve to seed a userbase for the gaming side.

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kklisura 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not heavy on gaming so I can't justify buying PS5 just for the games, but my god, if I would be able to thinker with it - I'd buy it in an instant!

	▲	ehe78qhe 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My friend bought a used BC-250 (basically a PS5 on a board) and modded it into a gaming PC the other week. Costs like 1/3rd the price of a PS5 https://bc250.info/
	▲	Narishma 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don't think Sony is interested in customers like you.

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hexagonsun 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is a kernel level exploit and afaik ps5 linux requires full hypervisor... so not yet, but probably soon.

	▲	alightsoul 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Is there any reason why we need the ps5 software? Is the processor locked to it? Is there a security microcontroller which needs it? Edit looks like the answer for both questions is yes

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latchkey 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

just get a bc-250...