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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