[HN Gopher] Linux for Playstation 2
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       Linux for Playstation 2
        
       Author : swatson741
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2024-01-28 08:26 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | pjmlp wrote:
       | It was a great indie development community, gaining experience on
       | what it meant a console like dev experience, sadly spoiled by
       | tons of folks porting emulators instead of being creative.
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       | Most like the reasoning behind PS3 Linux no longer having GPU
       | libraries like the PS2Linux, only 2D acceleration, and eventually
       | migration to FreeBSD as basis for PlayStation OS from PS4
       | onwards.
       | 
       | Still have my PS2Linux kit.
        
         | incrudible wrote:
         | Was it not always about a tax loophole that applied to PCs,
         | that went away during the PS3 era?
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         | https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/why-the-ps3-is-a-comp...
        
       | tetris11 wrote:
       | It looks like it's EOL. Can they not merge their changes
       | upstream?
        
         | pjmlp wrote:
         | Not at all, most of it used some blobs that were under Sony's
         | NDA.
         | 
         | Note that nowadays Sony uses FreeBSD and clang for a reason.
        
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