Homebrew wii-linux-ngx: release v0.3.4 with RGBA support

[neagix]

Hi there!

I have spent some time to upgrade gc-linux into something more modern and I am maintaining it for a while. I am also looking for other people that want to improve it and do some other cool projects with it.

Project home page:
https://neagix.github.io/wii-linux-ngx/

README:
https://github.com/neagix/wii-linux-ngx/blob/master/README.md

FAQs:
https://neagix.github.io/wii-linux-ngx/#frequently-asked-questions

CHANGELOG
https://github.com/neagix/wii-linux-ngx/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Latest release:
https://github.com/neagix/wii-linux-ngx/releases/

Most notably in the latest release v0.3.4 I added RGBA support to the framebuffer driver, and there is just one issue left with console text; I believe this should be easy to fix (tracker: https://github.com/neagix/wii-linux-ngx/issues/6)
Help to fix the current issues is very welcome! Give a look here: https://github.com/neagix/wii-linux-ngx/issues
Most notably if we fixed SDHC support after 3.15.y-EOL, we could run v4.x on the Wii.

To display an image with fbv:

~$ fbv mario.png

 

[leerz]

this is outstanding!

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Will there be desktop environments?

 

[neagix]

Will there be desktop environments?

There are already, you can run them via Xorg framebuffer driver - see FAQs https://neagix.github.io/wii-linux-ngx/#frequently-asked-questions

I suggest my fork of iDesk which is very lightweight: https://github.com/neagix/idesk

I didn't package anything related to DE to keep this to bare minimum so you'd need to install the deb packages and/or compile things yourself.

 

[laharl22]

thanks i will test