[SOLVED] Why there isn't any Play Station's OS out there on internet

[Vaibhav_Rai@]

Why there is no Play Station OS on the internet. There is MacOS but why not PS? What is stoping us?

 

[rgd1101]

because the "os" only run play station.

 

[Colif]

Because Sony don't want anything else running on Playstations. the Ps3 originally had ability to run linux but Sony removed it.

 

[TerryLaze]

It is on the internet, sony themselves have it on their webpage for you to download, it's the update.pup files. As already said it's useless for anybody because it only runs on PS.

 

[USAFRet]

Why there is no Play Station OS on the internet. There is MacOS but why not PS? What is stoping us?

To run that "OS" on different hardware?
Won't work.

 

[Vaibhav_Rai@]

It is on the internet, sony themselves have it on their webpage for you to download, it's the update.pup files. As already said it's useless for anybody because it only runs on PS.

Can't we do something with configuration files? As far as I know, there have been many software on PC's which fool it in thinking of some other hardware. Is there OS so secure?

 

[rgd1101]

that for app for windows os.
PS only run on PS hardware. there isn't anything to config

 

[gamerk316]

I mean, the PS OS going back to the PS3 is just a derivative of FreeBSD under the hood, so feel free to download/configure that.

But has been said, the Playstation OS is just a BSD derivative that targets one specific set of HW and can not run on anything else.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Can't we do something with configuration files? As far as I know, there have been many software on PC's which fool it in thinking of some other hardware. Is there OS so secure?

The first hurdle is the image you get from Sony is probably encrypted. Or at least there's something in there so that a casual user can't poke around in. The second is that the OS is very likely expecting something in the PlayStation hardware itself and won't boot without it. Unless you know what that thing is, no VM or actual PC hardware is going to make it work. It's the same reason why a standard version of x86 Linux won't boot on a PS4; the PS4 lacks hardware that the Linux distro is expecting.