[tech] A project idea...

[Grahame Bowland]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:33:04PM +0800, proXy wrote:
> I know that alot of people dislike the idea of whacking linux on things,
> but I thought maybe we could port Yellow Dog Linux (or something
> similar) to one of the pizza box macs in the corridor.
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/ydl.shtml
> if someone (not me but i would certainly help) wanted to, it could be
> done the hard way (can you compile a kernel on such a processor)
> (perhaps we could try freeBSD ;)
> I think this would be something interesting and different to have,
> also something to have a bit of a play with.

Dude, I think you're going to need a MMU on those processors. You 
won't have protected memory and Linux is a protected memory operating 
system.

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