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Seeing as these videos came out today, I'm going to guess that this is new news

booting from HBC, opening firefox

Streaming audio then playing a movie


I don't know about you chuckleheads but I'm nearly urinating my pants with excitement.
 
Thats just sweet. Totally looking forward to that.
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am i right with this: still no wifi support?

an an other thing. would it be possible to support higher resolutions than 640x480 with wiilinux?`
 
If it runs skype/any_other_voip service and is able to run ssh (which it probably is, would just need some work) then I'm game. Perfect for a silent machine that I could have on 24/7 that can wake up my fileserver @ home. Also nice that you could put on your gtalk / aim /msn /irc.

All in all sounds pretty nice (/me digs out his old 15" LCD).
 
teonintyfive said:
Can this mean Flash 9 support?
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I suppose Gnash should work. Is that flash 9 compat.?

Answer from google: nope, gnash doesn't support flash 9 yet. Partially works though. As for official ARM flash support, that ain't here yet, spam adobe for that one.
 
@"So, this is an OS on a SD", most operating systems are well below a gig when installed/made properly if that is your concern.

Back on topic, this may well make me regret trading my wii. At this rate the original xbox will lose the title of best sort of thing for this*.
My only concern, recent versions have been better than the earlier versions but firefox is a serious memory hog (regularly in the hundreds of megs, admittedly 3 windows with 50 or so tabs in each). Even with virtual memory that would not be nice.

*I have yet to try an overclocked/processor upgraded xbox with extra ram and a large hard drive so feel free to administer your preferred brand of chastising remark.
 
Hey guys,

I was pointed out to this thread by a viewer of the videos. As it happens, I've just prepared a beta version of xwhiite-linux. It's basically Xorg 7.1 on top of the existing debian etch / whiite, along with some drivers (wiimote, video) and useful apps (mplayer, vlc, xmms, firefox, opera).
The package is 140MB (bzipped), and uses around 500MB on the SD card. You'll need a homebrew-enabled Wii using homebrew channel or TP hack.

For installation, use the existing whiite installation guide on wiibrew.org (http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/WL:whiite-linux), but instead of the whiite filesystem package, use my xwhiite package. Also make sure you use the latest whiite kernel (2.6.27b).

Anyone wants to test it out ? Just give me a shout here and I'll send it to you.

regards,
Bert Jan
 
oh, cool , i could check it out in a couple o' minutes
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Edit:
hmm, don't really got time for this today though.. i could test it in a couple of days though if it's ok with you..

(Wi-Fi still doesn't work, does it?)
 

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