In memory of Ben “bushing” Byer, who passed away on Monday, February 8th, 2016.

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'''(NOTE: Wii Linux is several years old and is no longer actively maintained. In recent times, there has been newer alternative hardware platforms released that cover what people used to use Wii Linux for, eg the Raspberry Pi computer. By all means people should play around with Wii Linux still, but consider if you want to use an unmaintained, buggy powerpc-based Linux port or the larger, well-supported environment of Raspberry Pi - hardware that has comparable graphical processing power than a Wii. That said, don't be discouraged from having a play with Wii Linux if you already own a Wii. It's great fun!)'''
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'''DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Wii Linux is several years old (last release in late-2009) and is no longer actively maintained. In recent times, there's been newer alternative hardware platforms released that cover what people used to use Wii Linux for, eg the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi Raspberry Pi] computer. By all means people should play around with Wii Linux still, but consider if you want to use an unmaintained, buggy Linux port for the powerpc-based Wii or the well-supported linux distributions and large community of the ARM-based Raspberry Pi (hardware that has comparable graphical processing power to a Wii)'''
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'''That said, don't be discouraged from having a play with Wii Linux if you already own a Wii. It's great fun! END TRANSMISSION'''
    
'''Wii-Linux''' is a port of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux] kernel and related [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Core_Utilities GNU userspace utilities] to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii Nintendo Wii video game console]. Many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution distributions of GNU/Linux] are available for the Wii. All current distributions use a version of the "gc-linux" kernel, a port of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel Linux kernel] by the [http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page GC-Linux project].
 
'''Wii-Linux''' is a port of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux] kernel and related [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Core_Utilities GNU userspace utilities] to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii Nintendo Wii video game console]. Many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution distributions of GNU/Linux] are available for the Wii. All current distributions use a version of the "gc-linux" kernel, a port of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel Linux kernel] by the [http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page GC-Linux project].
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