A supposed Nintendo insider has revealed in his blog that the upcoming Nintendo console runs on the Linux operating system. Is the Wii penguin-powered, or is this just another rumor? What if our ...

A PC's operating system, when you drill right down to the nuts and bolts, is just a way of getting the user access to their desired functions. Whether it runs macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, or ...

In my August 2008 column, I wrote about how to use a Wiimote from a Nintendo Wii on a Linux system as a general-purpose wireless joystick. In that column, I covered how to bind use buttons not only on ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IowCjQb6dQA&w=425&h=355] This video describes how to use a regular SD card to hack your Wii to play homebrew games and run ...

It seems like a point of pride for hackers these days to port Linux onto any game console. We've already got versions of the ultra-portable operating system for the PS2, Xbox and GameCube. Now, days ...

Wii fans hang on to your hats, as the video above explains, hackers have found a way around the Wii's encryption keys which opens the widely popular console up to home brewed games, open source ports ...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.1 Monday and the new feature list is long and wide. Linux 3.1 includes a new iSCSI implementation and support for OpenRISC, Near-Field Communication chips, and — get ...

Update: The blogger that initially started this rumor has now openly stated that he made it up as a practical joke. Blogger Kiyoshi Saruwatari claims that Nintendo’s upcoming Wii console runs on the ...