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Re:Nintendo’s Resurgence by modeless on Monday December 11, 2017 @05:59PM (#15901506)
I was really happy to find this too, as the update experience (and system software in general) has been pretty terrible on previous Nintendo home consoles.

I wonder how much of Android they are using at the low levels? Android has recently gotten much, much better at applying system updates, adopting ideas from Chrome OS. Building on Android would be a really low friction way for them to get started on the system software, since they're using a Tegra chip, and it could also explain the improvement in general system software quality in Switch over Wii/Wii U.

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Re:Nintendo’s Resurgence by EpicBlackCrayon on Monday December 11, 2017 @06:08PM (#15901586)
The Switch runs a modified form of BSD.
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Re:Nintendo’s Resurgence by DiThi on Monday December 11, 2017 @08:35PM (#15902392)
It runs a modified form of 3DS firmware with BSD bits in it. It's not as clear cut as the PS4.
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Re:Nintendo’s Resurgence by throwawayfinal on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:23PM (#15927201)
It's looking more and more like it's a modified-but-largely-intact BSD kernel with a 3ds api (not abi?) compatible userspace. Time will probably prove me wrong.
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Re:Nintendo’s Resurgence by jamesgeck0 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:28AM (#15906820)
Nintendo investigated using Android, but the CyanogenMod CEO told them off. https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/21/android-software-company-...
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