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Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- Subject: Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- From: Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>
- Date: 28 Mar 2007 16:09:32 GMT
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Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:
> I doubt it. A MMU that supports paging is a minimum requirement for any
> reasonably standard Linux, and as far as I know the GS doesn't have one.
If you google for "linux no mmu" you can find info on an MMU-less version
Samsung tailored for ARM. http://opensrc.sec.samsung.com/
However, there really isn't any advantage to running Linux on a IIgs.
You're certainly not going to run X11 on it. :-) GNO provides pretty
much everything you'd want out of a UNIX port.
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