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  Nintendo Switch is running BSD RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-06 03:25 +0000
    Re: Nintendo Switch is running BSD Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2017-03-14 22:08 +0000

#13281 — Nintendo Switch is running BSD

From the «knew it» department:
Title: Nintendo Switch runs FreeBSD
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:20:15 -0500
Link: http://osnews.com/story/29698/Nintendo_Switch_runs_FreeBSD

Interesting little tidbit for the weekend: we now know what operating system
the Nintendo Switch is running. Since it's basically an NVIDIA Shield, I kind
of expected it to be running Android - heavily modded, of course - but it turns
out it's running something else entirely: it's running FreeBSD. Like Sony,
Nintendo also opts for FreeBSD for its games console. This means of the four
major gaming platforms, two run Windows, and two run FreeBSD. Fascinating.

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On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 03:25:26 +0000, RS Wood wrote:

> From the «knew it» department:
> Title: Nintendo Switch runs FreeBSD Author: Thom Holwerda Date: Fri, 03
> Mar 2017 20:20:15 -0500 Link:
> http://osnews.com/story/29698/Nintendo_Switch_runs_FreeBSD
> 
> Interesting little tidbit for the weekend: we now know what operating
> system the Nintendo Switch is running. Since it's basically an NVIDIA
> Shield, I kind of expected it to be running Android - heavily modded, of
> course - but it turns out it's running something else entirely: it's
> running FreeBSD. Like Sony, Nintendo also opts for FreeBSD for its games
> console. This means of the four major gaming platforms, two run Windows,
> and two run FreeBSD. Fascinating.

 That may simply be down to the need for high performance SMB. That's the 
only stand out feature that springs immediately to my mind which 
differentiates Linux from windows and FreeBSD. ;-)

-- 
Johnny B Good

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