This isn't the first time the PS4 was made to run Linux. That honor belongs to the Fail0verflow hack that was revealed December last year.

PS4 games have been optimized and designed to run on the PS4; the games available via Steam for Linux haven't.

An individual named OsirisX managed to install Arch Linux on the PlayStation 4, enabling him to run the Steam client and the Bastion game without problems.

That said, everything to turn the PS4 into a basic computer running Linux – serial port, framebuffer, HDMI encoder, Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, and the PS4 blinkenlights – is working.

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Hacking team fail0verflow last week demonstrated a hack of Sony's PlayStation 4 game console that allows anyone running the modification to run the Linux OS on the appliance. The demo was part of a ...

The PS4, which is scheduled to be released in November at the delightful price of $400, appears to run an operating system called Orbis OS, which is a modified version of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD is a ...

The PlayStation 4 was hacked to run Linux back in January. Now, we get to see a PS4 steam client running via Arch Linux. Check it out.