Re: [cochiselinux] [article] The Latest Linux – On A Floppy In A 486!
1 message · started by Rex Bouwense on Jul 09, 2020
Re: [cochiselinux] [article] The Latest Linux – On A Floppy In A 486!
From Rex Bouwense · Jul 09, 2020
After watching I asked myself why. The standard Linux Geek answer
is because I can. Not good enough for me. I have better things to
do with my time like get a haircut or water my plants. Well, now we
know that it can be done. Rah.
Rex
Rex
On 7/9/20 8:41 AM, Devi Garcia wrote:
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If you have ever studied the early history of the GNU/Linux operating system in its many forms, you’ll have read that [Linus Torvalds] developed his first kernel for his Intel 386-based computer. Though the 386 architecture is now ancient, the current Linux kernel can still be compiled for it and many distributions still maintain an i386 branch to provide broad compatibility for later machines able to run i386 code. But what if you were to take a current Linux kernel and stick it on a floppy in a machine from the early 1990s, with meagre RAM? [Fozztex] did just that, with not a 386 but a 486, sporting what would have been an impressive for the time 36MB of RAM. You can watch it in action in the video below the break.
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