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<blockquote data-quote="birbhorse" data-source="post: 9738973" data-attributes="member: 466912"><p>Hey there, happened to stumble upon this while lurking, I used to use Wii U Linux a bit (though I currently don't have it installed) but I can answer your questions.</p><p></p><p>1. It's not permanent, you use a firmware image file to boot into a USB drive that you create for linux; meaning you have to use a spare USB drive you have lying around to boot into linux.</p><p></p><p>2. Maybe some time in the future? Depends on if someone feels like developing kernel drivers for this, in which considering recent developments, it <em>might </em>just happen, but I wouldn't hold my breath. EDIT: Also, I'm not sure if a Wi-Fi USB thing will work. Try to seek out one that you know works with Linux (don't trust amazon listings that claim they are, i made that mistake once before).</p><p>EDIT 2: I just remembered, the way I did it was I used my Android phone to do wired tethering. You can use your phone's wi-fi, connect it to the wii u via USB cable, and set it to wired tethering, and linux treats it like a wired ethernet connection. Would be much easier to set up since you don't have to worry about setting up wi-fi via command line.</p><p></p><p>3. The Wii U screen is essentially non-functional, it displays a little graphic but that's about it, you can't use it for anything. You will absolutely need to use a USB keyboard, any one will do, a wireless keyboard works just as well.</p><p></p><p>Last one: I haven't gotten GUI apps to work properly, but from what I know, running Firefox at usable speeds will be a pipe-dream until they can figure out how to get multi-core support working (as of right now, linux only uses 1 out of the 3 cores the CPU has). That isn't to say you can't run GUI apps at all, it's just you won't have a fun time, especially since hardware acceleration will most likely never happen. And since this is all installed on a USB drive, it will be of course persistent, it's not like LiveCD or anything of the sort, you're directly installing it as if you did a regular hard-drive install.</p><p></p><p>Overall, Linux running on the Wii U is more of a novelty thing, though you can use it as a really weird server if you wanted to, since CLI apps will run just fine. Assuming you're using a distro that supports the Wii U's CPU architecture, which has been thinning out in recent years because it's a 32-bit CPU, and distros are rightfully considering ditching 32-bit architectures altogether, due to lack of users.</p><p></p><p>Void Linux used to be the one distro you could use with the WIi U, but they're dropping support for it's CPU soon; your last hope is to get Adelie Linux working, though they don't provide a raw image to flash to a hard-drive I don't think, so... good luck is all I can say, unless you can somehow get an obscure version of Debian to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="birbhorse, post: 9738973, member: 466912"] Hey there, happened to stumble upon this while lurking, I used to use Wii U Linux a bit (though I currently don't have it installed) but I can answer your questions. 1. It's not permanent, you use a firmware image file to boot into a USB drive that you create for linux; meaning you have to use a spare USB drive you have lying around to boot into linux. 2. Maybe some time in the future? Depends on if someone feels like developing kernel drivers for this, in which considering recent developments, it [I]might [/I]just happen, but I wouldn't hold my breath. EDIT: Also, I'm not sure if a Wi-Fi USB thing will work. Try to seek out one that you know works with Linux (don't trust amazon listings that claim they are, i made that mistake once before). EDIT 2: I just remembered, the way I did it was I used my Android phone to do wired tethering. You can use your phone's wi-fi, connect it to the wii u via USB cable, and set it to wired tethering, and linux treats it like a wired ethernet connection. Would be much easier to set up since you don't have to worry about setting up wi-fi via command line. 3. The Wii U screen is essentially non-functional, it displays a little graphic but that's about it, you can't use it for anything. You will absolutely need to use a USB keyboard, any one will do, a wireless keyboard works just as well. Last one: I haven't gotten GUI apps to work properly, but from what I know, running Firefox at usable speeds will be a pipe-dream until they can figure out how to get multi-core support working (as of right now, linux only uses 1 out of the 3 cores the CPU has). That isn't to say you can't run GUI apps at all, it's just you won't have a fun time, especially since hardware acceleration will most likely never happen. And since this is all installed on a USB drive, it will be of course persistent, it's not like LiveCD or anything of the sort, you're directly installing it as if you did a regular hard-drive install. Overall, Linux running on the Wii U is more of a novelty thing, though you can use it as a really weird server if you wanted to, since CLI apps will run just fine. Assuming you're using a distro that supports the Wii U's CPU architecture, which has been thinning out in recent years because it's a 32-bit CPU, and distros are rightfully considering ditching 32-bit architectures altogether, due to lack of users. Void Linux used to be the one distro you could use with the WIi U, but they're dropping support for it's CPU soon; your last hope is to get Adelie Linux working, though they don't provide a raw image to flash to a hard-drive I don't think, so... good luck is all I can say, unless you can somehow get an obscure version of Debian to work. [/QUOTE]
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