Enthusiasts have Turned the Nintendo Switch into a Functional Linux Tablet (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:40AM from the had-to-be-done dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A couple of weeks ago, the fail0verflow hacking collective showed a still image on Twitter of a Nintendo Switch booting Linux. They're one of a small handful of hacker teams who are teasing exploits of the Nvidia Tegra hardware inside the Switch. But now fail0verflow has video of a full-on Linux distro running on the hacked Switch, complete with touchscreen support, a fully operational web browser, and even a GPU-powered demo application. On Twitter, fail0verflow claims the bug they're exploiting to sidestep the Switch's security can't be patched on currently released hardware, and doesn't require a modchip. But as for now there aren't any details on how to do this yourself at home.

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Re:Ho-hum. by mark-t · 2018-02-20 02:49 · Score: 4, Insightful

Could *YOU* have done it?

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The new Wii by Juju · 2018-02-20 02:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

This is going to be the new Wii in terms of homebrew and cracked games.
Remember the Homebrew channel? The way you could plug a hard disk and have the graphical interface to play all your "backup" games?
I am sure Nintendo are currently very worried about this and will try to get the hardware patched ASAP.

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true hacking by ra66itman · 2018-02-20 03:25 · Score: 3, Insightful

this is what true hacking is, taking something and getting it to do something better or that it was not designed to do,Most likely, they will claim it is exploiting and do a hardware mod to stop this,I remember when someone found a way to put Linux on a Playstation. I know of at least one person/company who bought a dozen Play stations and used them as a array processor.