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During last week's Chaos Communication Congress event in Germany, console hacking team "fail0verflow" showed off their most recent project: a PS4 Linux port.

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.

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking ...

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.

We bet Sony is unhappyA hacking group fail0verflow has worked out a way of getting the Linux kernel-based operating system on the PS4. Sony has always hated this idea claiming that Linux is ...

Is this a ghost of Christmas past come to visit? Are we looking back on past generations of consoles as hackers make PlayStations run operating systems that they shouldn't? No, not at all, it's ...

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 ...

Microsoft is following the customers and the ecosystem, but pragmatic investment in Linux doesn't diminish the company's commitment to Windows.

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.