Hardware Nintendo Switch Runs FreeBSD Kernel

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LightyKD said:
Are you surprised?! Hell the Wii U has a lot of PS3 traits. Honestly, at times the Wii U feels like a PS3 made by Nintendo :P
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Even as far back as Wii, Nintendo OSes have just looked like a cross between Windows tiles and Sony's OS, just with a white default instead of black.

Now I think of that as standard for large-format Android. All the streaming sticks and Shield devices have UIs which look very similar.
 
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Xzi said:
Even as far back as Wii, Nintendo OSes have just looked like a cross between Windows tiles and Sony's OS, just with a white default instead of black.

Now I think of that as standard for large-format Android. All the streaming sticks and Shield devices have UIs which look very similar.
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And the PS3 OSes looks quite close to XBMC back in the day.
 
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This isn't confirmed yet. The Vita had FreeBSD notices in it's OSS license page as well, but actually ran a custom OS.
 
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We will wait to see how secure (or buggy) the userland components are, but I hope it it will not be hacked too soon because the last thing I want is people cheating online and ruin the fun for everyone
 
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lefthandsword said:
We will wait to see how secure (or buggy) the userland components are, but I hope it it will not be hacked too soon because the last thing I want is people cheating online and ruin the fun for everyone
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It will take years for that to happen. It take 3DS 4 years to get hack so it would be naive to think Switch will be any easier.
 
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anhminh said:
It will take years for that to happen. It take 3DS 4 years to get hack so it would be naive to think Switch will be any easier.
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Most of that time was spent on writing documentation and SDK. yellows8 and co. got CFW on 3DS back in 2013, they won't burn exploits until everything else is ready
 
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