Hostname: Mercur-Wii
Nice
Neat
Does the wii have a keyboard add-on?
It has two USB ports. The stock OS can even access keyboards.
Oh yeah, I’d forgot
And USB LAN too!
that’s not a lot of dadotaded wam I don’t think
73 MB of RAM, ouch
And not even continuous ram! The wii had 2 bits, 24MB fast memory ( mem1 ) and 64 MB of slower memory haha
Please keep telling us Wii facts, this is important
Most of what i know is from year and years of working on the console and are found on wiibrew.org haha
Damn Small Linux can run a graphical desktop environment with as little as 16 MB of RAM (although 24 is recommended).
That really makes me want to see a Wii with a mouse and keyboard plugged displaying a spreadsheet or something. Unfortunately DSL only supports x86. Theoretically it could be ported to PPC like Void Linux was, though I don’t know if all the tweaks they did to make the kernel and pre-installed packages as small as possible would make that harder.
Here’s the website, I have nothing to do with this. I should have thought to post that initially.
But can it run crysis?
I’ve been wanting to try this for ages, but never got round to it. How long did it take to get installed? Do you recommend it, even if just for the memes.
The Linux portion wasn’t long at all, it’s just a matter of putting files on an SD and unpacking other files to a second SD or flash drive with Linux, then it just boots (if you already have BootMii installed). Probably about half an hour.
Installing HomeBrew Channel and BootMii is another story, I did that last year and don’t remember how long it takes. I can look for the guide I used and post it here when I find it. This part is also pretty straight forward iirc, but I’m not sure if/how things have changed.
I would totally recommend it! It’s shockingly responsive and usable and the devs have a ton of packages compiled for it in the repos.
I’ve already modded my wii with bootmii etc, was just wondering about the linux part! Thanks! I’ll have a look soon
Wow
