Wii Runs on Linux

[rabbit]

http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/10/08/1754219.shtml

Aha!  Pretty interesting.  I want to see where this goes, especially if it leads to being able to add new support for stuff just by updating.

[Warrior]

Why is this being touted as a new feature? I'm pretty sure you're able to download updates via the 360 as well..

It using Linux is great and all ..it'd just be interesting to see how exactly they propose on getting stable 3D running. IIRC Even closed source 3D drivers dont match the Windows driver in performance.

[Newby]

You didn't read the article. Nowhere does it say it runs on Linux. That's a pure speculative thought. :|

[Warrior]

Then the Wii runs on Linux title is a little misleading.

[rabbit]

You didn't read the article. Nowhere does it say it runs on Linux. That's a pure speculative thought. :|

It runs a proprietary kernel, but they want to run GNU/Linux.  Shh.

[d&q]

Then the Wii runs on Linux title is a little misleading.

Wouldn't the proper title be Linux runs on the Wii?

[Newby]

You didn't read the article. Nowhere does it say it runs on Linux. That's a pure speculative thought. :|

It runs a proprietary kernel, but they want to run GNU/Linux.  Shh.

Nowhere in the article does it mention 'GNU' or 'Linux' so I suggest you shh and actually try reading for once. The summary isn't the article. Where does it say they (they being Nintendo, the ones who apparently were using a Linux kernel) want to run GNU/Linux?

A quote from slashdot:

The person who posted the original story really should have done the 5 minutes research I just did, there is zero credible evidence that Nintendo has done anything at all with Linux. The "source" of the original speculation is someone named "Kiyoshi Saruwatari", who claims to be a designer who doesn't work for Nintendo, but has worked with them. He never names a company, specific business interactions, the nature of his work, nothing. His "facts" seem to consist of pure conjecture and swizzling of common publically released information (Virtual Console, etc).

In the months before the Wii controller was revealed at Tokyo Game Show 2005, there was a rash of "insider" blogs, with a lot of suspiciously made-up sounding Japanese names, with calculatedly poor English skills. These blogs were the source of a lot of the early misinformation, the "VR helmet" nonsense, the "secretly more graphically powerful than both Xbox 360 and PS3", the "Kid Icarus sequel", etc. My guess is half of them were American or European fanboys who were trying to stir things up.

In short I don't consider it responsible to call the single, highly dubious rumor that Nintendo is using Linux "reporting", and I hope this doesn't touch off a lot of controversy over what began with nothing more than a big fat lie / hoax.

[rabbit]

Aww