Remember when Sony said the PS3 would render at 120 fps? Forget it, 240fps

[Groucho]

NJ5 said:

Groucho said:

The PS3's OS is a custom version of Linux.  You can put your own Linux on it, as well, however.

 

Doesn't that mean Sony would have to publicly release the source code to their version of Linux according to the terms of the GPL license?

 

I don't really know.  It seems like Linux, and I had heard it was.  Perhaps I misheard it may be a version of one of IBM's unix variants.  I thought it was Linux, but I think you're probably correct.

In any case, its certainly not the beast that Windows is, even the reduced version on the X360, from what I can tell -- although the X360 footprint is quite small, I think.  It seems hungry for processing power, but I haven't used it for nearly 3 years.