Your PS4 is about to, unofficially, see many, many more video games available to play on it. Fail0verflow, the hacking collective that broke the PS3’s encryption and champions homebrew games, has just announced they’ve got Linux working on a PS4, and that SteamOS should “just work” once they resolve the driver issues. But will Sony tolerate Valve on their turf?
Sony has something of a thing for Linux. Before they got all humorless about it, the PS3 could run Linux, both as a bid to make it a PC and as a way to create little development kits for gamers to experiment with. The PS4, officially, has no such functionality, but it’s close enough to a standard PC that Fail0verflow is engineering a custom Linux kernel for it.