Engineer ports Linux to PS5 Slim, runs GTA 5 with ray tracing

Andy Nguyen posted his success story on X, reporting that his Ubuntu-powered PS5 Slim happily runs GTA 5 Enhanced with ray tracing enabled. The simplicity of the outcome belies the seriousness of the challenge: Sony already uses Linux for its PlayStation operating system, but that did not make the project simple.

None of this is easy to reproduce. The exploit hack required is blocked by firmware updates, so consoles that are regularly updated will no longer be accessible. Nguyen’s video also shows the Steam performance overlay misreading several things — GPU clock speeds, utilisation, VRAM levels and even temperatures, once reporting -2147483 degrees Celsius.

If one person has succeeded, others will likely follow, which raises the question of how long it will be before a very odd AMD GPU begins to appear in the Steam Hardware Survey — probably sooner than we see any real Steam Machines.

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