That was just something I was tinkering with... --- ... I've been meaning to fix up the ELKS build and stuff, but haven't gotten around to it yet. It'd be nice to get it to build with the packages in debian+ubuntu (free software can wind up picked up in odd ways!) but those tools say the kernel's too big. If I was to seriously pick the idea up again I'd look at non-MMU arm's too small to run ucLinux, ala Cortex-M3 chips. The trick there's minimizing RAM usage - I'm not sure if a conventional UNIX model could actually do much with the RAM on the MCU's, but with tight utilities it could be useful for embedded things and education. But in a few years they'll probably have 512K-1MB RAM and a clever ucLinux setup might actually work. For old PC's putting together something around OpenWRT that would turn an old laptop/desktop into an applicance, as it were, would be quite useful IMO. A dead-screen laptop could be a wireless router, print server, and remote media player all at the same time. Making that something actually easy to set up and use is the important bit... (in addition in the US at least a 7yr old scrapped P4 w/512MB, maybe even 256, can run Linux fine, at least if one tosses a new hard drive or even an 8GB IDE'd CF in...) - Kibo^WChad On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> However inside the originals in the TSX mirror are references to a man > >> who's first name was Chad, and he created a simple kernel named nonix. > >> Probably as part of a course requirement or even for fun. Has anyone > >> heard anything further, either about him, or his work? > > > > Chad Page > > > > > > Hello! > Thank you Alan. However this further adds meaning to my questions. Has > anyone actually heard anything further? > > > ----- > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@xxxxxxxxx > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
