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Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- Subject: Re: Can a GS run Linux?
- From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:40:26 +0200
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Gene Linkoski wrote:
>>> Can a GS run any flavor of Linux, even a most basic version or is it
>>> simply out of the GS's capability?
>> 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.
>
> What about Minix? It ran on an IBM PC XT.
My point wasn't that no Unix clone is possible on a GS, but rather that
*Linux* couldn't work. Unless you redefine the term "Linux" in a very
broad way.
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Linards Ticmanis