Considering the Playstation software was made using FreeBSD as a base,
how do the users work?
reddit / BSD

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SoftwareA · 2023-04-13 01:18

**Sorry if this is a random or dumb question, but I am just curious**,
since the **PS3-PS5** consoles are all confirmed to be using FreeBSD
as a base (**apparently**), and considering how BSD works and how
users exist in a BSD system, would PlayStation console users get their
own system user account, or do all of the games and environments all
run under one single BSD user?

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ANDROID_16 · 2023-04-13 03:21

Only Sony knows. They took the FreeBSD source and made their own
operating system. What they did to it, one can only speculate.

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chesheersmile · 2023-04-13 06:16

According to PSDevWIki
(https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/Files_on_the_PS4), every user has their
own folder in /user/home.

But I think all games and apps are running under some kind of
hypervisor (probably their own custom-made).

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ImageJPEG · 2023-04-13 12:13

Would be kind of cool if it’s bhyve.

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domzen · 2023-04-13 17:28

Is there a way to e. g. look up a website and see how much Sony has
contributed back to the community?

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[deleted] · 2023-04-13 18:49

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muthuh · 2023-04-13 18:59

Meaning they didn't bother contributing since 'not a requirement'.
Cool.

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[deleted] · 2023-04-13 19:48

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deux3xmachina · 2023-04-13 20:04

It's still in their best interest to upstream their changes as much as
possible, otherwise they're going to end up maintaining more
resembling their own OS than just some proprietary patches.

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tofazzz · 2023-04-14 00:00

I think if you search in the mailing for "sony" you should find some
thread here and there.

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No_Commercial_1302 · 2023-04-14 17:09

Die ps4 (das weiß ich sicher) benutzt jails die ps5 denke ich einen
ganzen hypervisor für spiele

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trasz · 2023-04-16 00:05

>The BSD license doesn't require users of software to contribute back.

And even if they do contribute back, they don't necessarily make it
obvious where the diff came from.  Some companies want their
contributions to be known, some don't.

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TranshumanistDreams · 2023-05-05 16:20

Lmao ok, imagine hating copyleft