Excellent project! This is one of the topics that keeps Hacker News ever refreshing. Seeing work get done in a way that feels like real hacking but in a positive way.
You might also be interested in this similar work: Installing Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii [video] (123pts, 37cmts): (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306018)
The author has mentioned earlier attempts to port other OSes to the Wii but it appears these works didn't get much traction here on HN except for Windows:
WindowsNT (255pts, 86cmts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221633
Linux (53pts, 1cmts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30568676
NetBSD (4pts,0 cmts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668959