Happy clustering everybody!

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As someone who has been putting linux on every alternate platform she could since the late 1990's "just because", and a once active member on the now defunct linux-hacker.net, back in the days of WebTV and 3com's Audry, I applaud fail0verflow's tenacity, creativity and success!

Actually there's no typo it's faiOverflow, no idea who they are but I guess probably one of the better Chinese collectives.

On an unrelated note I remember an exploit with a totally congruent forkbomb vector that I used to boot Qtopia on my Archos 605 Wifi. Started in help pages just the same!

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I figured it was these folks?
https://fail0verflow.com/blog/index.html

Thanks! Nevermind, you're right... Yeah I have a strange habit of coercing myself to dead-reckon at least the nationality of who actually developed an exploit. I love how these guys don't care if I ever know.

I'm definitely building a Xeon/Dashhacks/failOverflow/Intel NUC hybrid monster now. Throw in 2 i7s, one i3 & some Palms and I have a recipe for getting real work done. Virtual static without paying will be tricky but I should be able to leverage google app engine (or whatever they call it next week) for both that & proxy recursion when necessary. If I'm honest the really tough part is gonna be running all this cleanly materials & power wise...

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I don't get the title of this thread or really why this is impressive, Linux has ran on game consoles since the PS2 days, maybe even before. Are you saying you want to create a beowulf cluster out of PS4s? I suppose that could work, personally I want a beowulf cluster built out of Raspberry Pis but the PS4s will probably be stronger. More expensive too though, I guess maybe the reason why this is impressive is consoles can actually be decent computers now. I ran Arch Linux on my Wii and it run decent enough but I imagine next gen will be like running a mid range desktop.

The PS4 announced jailbreak was just announced a few days ago. I still find it interesting to see how they come up with new creative ways to get around the intentional limitations, but there is little point anymore in that particular arena any more. It's a bit of a game between the people trying to do so and Sony, they go back and forth like a meaningless arms race. The exciting part - to me, in my opinion - is the earliest part, that "first person to put linux on platform x" because it takes a tremendous amount of grudge-work working from very little information. With the PS4 it was more like spy vs spy.

Still, the route they took in this case was interesting and the amount of hardware they got running was impressive.