[Cbe-oss-dev] OtherOS disabled across the board?

[François Galea]

Seems the Sony people were waiting for a good reason for getting rid of 
the otherOs feature. They found it with GeoHot's "exploit", which is the 
"security concern" they are talking about in the announcement.

This is a(nother) sad day for PS3 and CBE development. After IBM's 
announcement of the cancellation of the 32-SPE next generation of CBE, 
now this. It's hard not to believe the CBE platform is dying.

Sad, sad news ...

François Galea


Mirabito, David a écrit :
> Tell me it isn't so?
> 
> http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/03/29/ps3-firmware-3-21-coming-april-1st/
> 
> """
> It will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models, launched in September 2009. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, we’re now removing this feature
> """
> 
> Folks on the list might want to be wary of updating, if they ever do boot into gameOS in the future.
> 
> -David
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