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| 2025-04-22 |
NetBSD running on a Wii |
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The NetBSD operating system is highly portable and lightweight. This allows the project to run on a wide variety of CPUs and unusual devices. Alex Haydock tested the range of NetBSD recently by setting up a website, powered by NetBSD, running on a Nintendo Wii. "The NetBSD Wii image has all the necessary metadata & structure needed to boot directly from the Homebrew Channel as if it were any other kind of homebrew app. I think there’s a lot of credit due here to NetBSD developer Jared McNeill, who seems to be the main author of the Wii port.
Placing our SD card in the console and launching the Homebrew Channel is all we need to do to prepare ourselves to launch NetBSD. Once booted into NetBSD, we can use a USB keyboard just fine, but it will be easiest to get SSH working so we can manage the system remotely. The SSH daemon is already running out-of-the-box, so the only changes we need to make are to set a password for the root user and then enable logging in as root by adding PermitRootLogin yes to the sshd_config." Haydock's blog post offers details on getting NetBSD running on the Wii. Status and resource usage information has also been provided. |
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