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

[MikeB]

afree_account said:

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?

 

 

BINGO!

 

As I understand the PS3 CellOS is based on Sony's own embedded technologies, QNX a really cool realtime Unix-like OS but far more efficient and powerful, as well as using BSD technology.

I was a spokesperson for Phoenix Developers Consortium, we used QNX a lot and hoped to built it into something special for home computer usage as well. QNX Neutrino (the kernel) was once planned to be at the core of a new Amiga system, but at the time Amiga Inc was owned by Gateway (PC clone maker) and Microsoft pressured them to abondon the project, if they went ahead Microsoft would have retracted Gateway's discounts on Windows which would have resulted into many millions of additional costs for which rival PC makers would have gotten a competitive advantage. Later when the project was cancelled and Amiga Inc sold off, a Gateway exec testified this in court during the antitrust hearings.