Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii

If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii. You can check the Wii’s live status page for system load info. For a long time, I’ve enjoyed the idea of running general-purpose operating systems on decidedly not-general-purpose hardware. There’s been a few good examples of this over the years, including a few which were officially sanctioned by the OEM. Back in the day, my PS3 ran Yellow Dog Linux, and I’ve been searching for a (decently priced) copy of PS2 Linux for 10+ years at this point. There are some other good unofficial examples, such as Dreamcast Linux, or PSPLinux. But what a lot of these systems have in common is that they’re now very outdated. Or they’re hobbyist ports that someone got running once and where longer-term support never made it upstream. The PSP Linux kernel image was last built in 2008, and Dreamcast Linux is even more retro, using a 2.4.5 kernel built in 2001. I haven’t seen man ... Read full article.