How to run Linux in your PS4's Browser

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I havent been active in the community as of late but there was something i found that i felt was so important i had to come back and write one more tutorial. I found a way that you can run Linux on your PS4.

Requirements-

5mins of your time-

Mouse and keyboard would be recommeded-


1.Open up your browser on your PS4

2.go to http://bellard.org/jslinux/

3.This Linux Distro was built in javascript and was made to run right inside your browser and Since the PS4 Browser suppourts Javascript it will work.

There you go Linux on the PS4, i know its only through the web browser which is kinda lame :/ But its a start and something we can all tinker around with

I tested this on my Mac and it works fine I'm beyond positive it will work on the PS4 as well since it only requires javascript which the PS4 browser Suppourts, feel free to test this out and confirm

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As of 8:08 am CST i can now confirm this works

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Thanks for fixing the title i can see how it might have been a little confusing.

Also keep me updated Tom I'd love to see what comes out of this
 

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running Linux through the browser has no use?? does that mean that I can't run steam like I would with regular Linux distro??
This isn't a full fledged Linux distro, it's extremely basic and is running off Javascript. This has no use other than "Oh neat, Javascript Linux". Not to mention it's running in the web browser, which is run in a sandbox and has access to virtually no hardware. You probably couldn't even run Steam, let alone play games on it.
 
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This isn't a full fledged Linux distro, it's extremely basic and is running off Javascript. This has no use other than "Oh neat, Javascript Linux". Not to mention it's running in the web browser, which is run in a sandbox and has access to virtually no hardware. You probably couldn't even run Steam, let alone play games on it.
oh... ok... I guess I'll wait to see if that 4.55 kernel exploit is true or not... :sad: or if there's ever an actual release...
 

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Does this work on ps4 5.05? also does it allow you to do the dolphin emulator stuff that are shown on youtube?
 

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Does this work on ps4 5.05? also does it allow you to do the dolphin emulator stuff that are shown on youtube?
This isn't a full fledged Linux distro, it's extremely basic and is running off Javascript. This has no use other than "Oh neat, Javascript Linux". Not to mention it's running in the web browser, which is run in a sandbox and has access to virtually no hardware. You probably couldn't even run Steam, let alone play games on it.

If you want to run Linux on your 5.05 PS4, you're gonna wanna use PS4 Linux Loader: https://github.com/valentinbreiz/PS4-Linux-Loader/tree/5.05

I'm not sure if there are any restrictions regarding drivers for 5.05 (haven't looked into it much myself), so I dunno if you can run Dolphin/other games.
 
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