• Coriza@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    At launch and for a good while PS3 came with a boot to Linux enabled by default, some universities around the globe bought some “from the shelf” to make some server farm and such.

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      13 days ago

      Retail units couldn’t access most of the RSX in OtherOS for Sony reasons, Geohot fixing that was why they killed OtherOS.

      Apparently the DOD units never had any lockouts on the GPU.

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        7 days ago

        It was not most resources. It was just one SPE that was locket behind for the firmware.