{"id":44424,"date":"2018-02-20T03:09:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/hackers-have-turned-the-nintendo-switch-into-a-functional-linux-tablet\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T03:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:09:24","slug":"hackers-have-turned-the-nintendo-switch-into-a-functional-linux-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/hackers-have-turned-the-nintendo-switch-into-a-functional-linux-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers have turned the Nintendo Switch into a functional Linux tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are two major reasons I can think of to hack a game console. The first one is obvious: so you can play cracked copies of games. That\u2019s why modern consoles are so difficult to hack, because millions of dollars are on the line.<\/p>\n

But some people just want to run any software they choose on the hardware they own. And for those people, Linux on the Switch is a huge achievement.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, the fail0verflow hacking collective showed a still image on Twitter<\/a> of a Nintendo Switch booting Linux. They\u2019re one of a small handful of hacker teams who are teasing exploits of the Nvidia Tegra hardware inside the Switch.<\/p>\n

But now fail0verflow has video of a full-on Linux distro running on the hacked Switch, complete with touchscreen…<\/p>\n

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There are two major reasons I can think of to hack a game console. The first one is obvious: so you can play cracked copies of games. That\u2019s why modern consoles are so difficult to hack, because millions of dollars are on the line. But some people just want to run any software they choose… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t