When [Reit Tech] Something to do with an old Nintendo Wii turned to Google. When the AI overview told him that it could not be used as a server, he had his mission: Prove that the clanker is wrong. Things are already going on, so what else can you do?
Of course, of course, should not be that difficult: Linux has been available on Wii for years. In fact, there are several; He settles on “Arch, VAT”, after trying Debian, Ubuntu and even NetBSD. “Of course the NetBSD drives” – but NetBSD did not work with his USB network adapter, which is unfortunately as predictable as the hardware with NetBSD.
Ok, it’s not vanilla -bow; It is the Wii-Linux pre-style project, based on Archpower Fork that compiles Arch for PPC. Because the young YouTuber was surprised to discover, even though he was not a PC or particularly powerful, the Wii has a PowerPC CPU. (He is perhaps younger than the console, so we will give him a pass.) Wii-Linux could also not perform the USB adapter (appropriate apologies were offered to NetBSD), but it appears that the internal Ethernet adapter was always available.
As a file server, Python-based Copyparty worked flawlessly, but the rust-based Minecraft server he chose was not particularly useful. A little optimization would solve that, because you can serve Minecraft from an ESP32 and the Wii absolutely has more horsepower than that. Undoubtedly he could I have loaded a web server and proven that Google’s AI summary is wrong, but the iPad-induced ADHD that we are all suffering from nowadays, so he chose to place a screenshot of someone else’s blog, hosted on a Wii from NetBSD. So the LLM was wrong from the start, but the tour of “which was still loaded in the home brewing OSE’s still working in 2025” was certainly instructive.
We can hunt for you on that blog on the blog based blog, but we would still be reluctant to link it: while the AI summary is wrongAnd you can use the Wii as a server, that does not mean that one Good An. We would not feel the need to unintentionally do a number of poor unsuspecting Shmucc’s Nintendo, so we let you try to find it yourself.
Just be warned that all this wii -hacking may not be on the best basis.
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