Hardware Nintendo Switch Runs FreeBSD Kernel

[MadonnaProject]

Someone needs to get on it and hack it NOW.

 

[WiiUBricker]

Called it.

Sorry Android fanboys, your idea that Nintendo even remotely considered Android is stupid.

 

[MrJason005]

What did 3DS use?
I don't know if running open source software on a so anti-piracy system is correct.

 

[munchy_cool]

Nvidia Tegra

https://twitter.com/nvidia/status/837732158311559168

 

[linuxares]

Even if it doesn't get hacked right away, running FreeBSD kernel is actually a really good move. BSD is stable like a damn brick.

 

[Kioku]

Called it.

Sorry Android fanboys, your idea that Nintendo even remotely considered Android is stupid.

Not really. If you want to be an uptight dick about it, you can crawl back in your hole.

The notion that it may have been android wasn't too far off given the hardware specs. Not to mention, up until a couple of months ago, we knew nothing other than it was a hybrid console.

 

[dubbz82]

Even if it doesn't get hacked right away, running FreeBSD kernel is actually a really good move. BSD is stable like a damn brick.

Hmm....wonder how they're going to disguise all the inevitable "stability updates" later into the console's life.

 

[linuxares]

Hmm....wonder how they're going to disguise all the inevitable "stability updates" later into the console's life.

"Installed 3DS for extra stability"

 

[WiiUBricker]

Not really. If you want to be an uptight dick about it, you can crawl back in your hole.

The notion that it may have been android wasn't too far off given the hardware specs. Not to mention, up until a couple of months ago, we knew nothing other than it was a hybrid console.

Android is a security disaster. If you think for one second that Nintendo was considering Android, you're pretty much delusional.

 

[The Catboy]

But devs "don't know how to program on Linux!!"
Fucking tilted!

 

[foob]

Android is a security disaster. If you think for one second that Nintendo was considering Android, you're pretty much delusional.

...and an expensive pay-for-licensing disaster
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...sung-settle-android-patent-royalties-dispute/

Zero chance of Nintendo - tight-fisted Nintendo - considering the OS from those lovely NSA collaborators on that basis alone.

 

[thomasnet]

I ran nmap on my Switch, FreeBSD confirmed:
All 1000 scanned ports on pc-148.home (192.168.1.26) are closed
MAC Address: 7C:BB:8A:89:EC:79 (Nintendo)
Warning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1 open and 1 closed port
Device type: general purpose
Running: FreeBSD 6.X|7.X|8.X
OS CPE: cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:6.2 cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:7.0 cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:8.2
OS details: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1, FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT, FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 - 7.1-PRERELEASE, FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE, FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE, FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE

 

[tech3475]

Android is a security disaster. If you think for one second that Nintendo was considering Android, you're pretty much delusional.

If Nintendo didn't for even 1 second consider it, even just to say 'there are security concerns', I'd say that was bad practice.

Besides, as seen with the PS4, FreeBSD alone doesn't guarantee security.

 

[CamoHiddenDJ]

If you keep looking at the OS licenses page, you will notice there are quite a few android components used. I wouldn't be surprised if it shared some userland or even dalvik. Not sure as it's just listed as "Android Components". Now, I will point out that there is a license listed for Stagefright, which is a media playback engine. Older versions of stagefright have an exploit that "allows an attacker to perform arbitrary operations on the victim's device through remote code execution and privilege escalation." (source: wikipedia)

 

[Xzi]

If Nintendo didn't for even 1 second consider it, even just to say 'there are security concerns', I'd say that was bad practice.

Besides, as seen with the PS4, FreeBSD alone doesn't guarantee security.

Nvidia already has Android consoles on the market. I don't regret buying my Shield TV, but Android is far from a gaming powerhouse. It gets use mostly as a streaming box.

 

[tech3475]

Thinking about it, I wonder if the license played a part?

Android uses a mixture of licenses, some GPL such as the Kernel (you have to release source code), others Apache (you don't have to).

From what I can tell, FreeBSD doesn't require you to release the source code.

 

[Yil]

I said Linux or Unix might pop up, and everyone insist me it's goin to another custom system by Nintendo.

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But devs "don't know how to program on Linux!!"
Fucking tilted!

But Windows cannot even handle C.

 

[thomasnet]

But Windows cannot even handle C.

Visual C ?

 

[Deleted User]

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.

Actually less then 3 years, forgot gatewait? And ninjhax? I got my 3ds in 2014 and it had sky3ds and ninjhax back then,..

 

[Yil]

Visual C ?

Not impossible But so much easier on Linux.