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Written by NekoMimi on 2024-08-14 at 18:11

Random #linux on #psvita rant

So I kinda watched a ton of vids of Linux running on potatoes, vita included

The thing is to run Linux on the vita is... Kinda impossible or rather there is no point in doing it with what's available atm

the vita always has an active homebrew community with new titles or ports released weekly, can be very easily jailbroken and imo is the best hackable handheld, especially for emulation

The idea of running Linux on everything is more of a proof than to have a functional setup since I don't think with the vita's hw it would be useful, running an x server would be out and there isn't a clear way to type unlike the 3ds port which uses the bottom touchscreen as a keyboard, now a solution like running a custom io server which would connect to a phone or PC using WiFi then using the phone/PC as a keyboard is a solution but it's not portable, Bluetooth can be an option but I dont think a driver can be made

Now comes the software selection, as long as its compiled for armv7 it should work, I've seen a couple of cli apps running fine but really what would you actually wanna put on it? Python might be a good idea and a hacky sdl library could be created to make gui apps since there exists a python player with sdl graphics for the vita

The Linux kernel can be loaded by making the vita reboot into the kernel or if possible it can be ran via enso ex using emmc recovery or sd2vita recovery

Would there be any use for this?

At the very least it's a proof of concept, and I know that the Linux loader exists for vita it's an amazing port of Linux but I'd wish it could've been an easier publicly available solution

That leaves us with one issue cause all what I talked about up there is already achieved, it's wifi capability, if that can be implemented then a lot can be done, by porting python3.12 alone it could make this project very useful and would turn the vita into a tinkerer's device more than what it already is

I mean, you've got a Godot port, a lua player, a python2 player, a c++ build toolchain, getting Linux would only make it more interesting

That includes it for my rant :3

Sorry for powstwing a vewy wong want :3

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