It's still being worked on:Any developments on this?
Is it safe to assume wireless networking isn't a thing, though? I want WeeUChat. :^}As it stands, we've got:
Framebuffer graphics (no acceleration or DRI)
That works? I only skimmed over what was functional, and I thought I saw that USB peripherals don't work yet. Guess I read wrong.@Joom: sadly no wireless yet. rw's the one mainly working on this; I'm not in the loop about how it's going right now. Use a USB-Ethernet adapter for now.
Hey all, here's a quick update on the state of things. I haven't been able to work much on linux-wiiu due to real life (and that's likely true for the other devs too), but Quark and I have been working on a better solution for installing Debian than finagling around with tarballs and images and all that *fun* stuff. I'm currently cleaning up the Linux side of things right now (chroot is a royal pain), and Quark's been off bug hunting in linux-loader to implement support for a few bootloader features necessary for a clean installer. (They're not features you'll see on the surface, so don't worry if nothing seems to look different.)
@depaul: regarding emulators, go ahead! I've actually been thinking about trying a few myself. GCC is throwing internal compiler errors everywhere, though, so compiling anything non-trivial from scratch is mildly annoying at best and awful at worst. Anything needing a recompiler is probably a no-go unless someone's written one for PPC, so PSX and N64 are probably out for now. You could give NES/SNES a shot...
@Joom: sadly no wireless yet. rw's the one mainly working on this; I'm not in the loop about how it's going right now. Use a USB-Ethernet adapter for now.
Run Linux programs on your Wii U.What can I do with this?
What can I do with this?
Sounds good. Thanks for the update. It's great to hear that you're still "on it". It's completely fine that you don't "waste" all your time on it due to your real life. It should stay a fun thing so don't rush yourself.Hey all, here's a quick update on the state of things. I haven't been able to work much on linux-wiiu due to real life (and that's likely true for the other devs too), but Quark and I have been working on a better solution for installing Debian than finagling around with tarballs and images and all that *fun* stuff. I'm currently cleaning up the Linux side of things right now (chroot is a royal pain), and Quark's been off bug hunting in linux-loader to implement support for a few bootloader features necessary for a clean installer. (They're not features you'll see on the surface, so don't worry if nothing seems to look different.)
@depaul: regarding emulators, go ahead! I've actually been thinking about trying a few myself. GCC is throwing internal compiler errors everywhere, though, so compiling anything non-trivial from scratch is mildly annoying at best and awful at worst. Anything needing a recompiler is probably a no-go unless someone's written one for PPC, so PSX and N64 are probably out for now. You could give NES/SNES a shot...
@Joom: sadly no wireless yet. rw's the one mainly working on this; I'm not in the loop about how it's going right now. Use a USB-Ethernet adapter for now.
Run more programs than you can currently with Cafe OS homebrewIf it gets up and running fully, what things can you expect to do on it? There's youtube videos of linux running on the Wii and then running XP
Especially a media player (finally!), a proper browser, some simple games, using the Wii U as a server for multiple things (although a Rasp would be the better choice) and so on.If it gets up and running fully, what things can you expect to do on it? There's youtube videos of linux running on the Wii and then running XP
Debian has dropped support for PPC in the main releases, but Debian's sid (unstable) branch still supports PPC. TenFourFox does have a G3 version, but it's (again) OS X only; Firefox works just fine, actually.
The Wii U does have an h264 hardware decoder; I'm pretty sure it's just the decoder built into the R700 GPU, but I'm not certain.
Also, @kfrfansub, here's your long-delayed demo of linux-wiiu. It's kind of long due to slow loading times and one stupid PEBKAC error. (if I sound sleepy, it's because I am...)