Wii Will Have an Updatable Linux OS

eldavojohn writes "There's bits and pieces of information floating around that revolve around Iwata Asks interviews on Nintendo's website. What I found interesting was the tidbit about the updatable operating system: 'Wii is the first system from Nintendo that we can continue to be involved in (via operating system updates) after the customer buys it. This means that Wii will greatly expand and diversify the ways in which people will enjoy games in the future.' The Wii is reported to operate on top of a proprietary form of the Linux kernel, although there are already efforts to make a GNU/Linux for the console. So, the answer to the age old question is that it already runs Linux."

Comments

Re:Yeah, I Phrased That Badly

[senatorpjt]

Yet, nvidia links against the kernel and doesn't release source code. I guess it's just a question of which has more lines.

Re:"a proprietary form of the Linux kernel"

[Meneth]

Hardware is not licensed under the GPL. Only the software is. This is why Linus is right and RMS is wrong.