azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.eeimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1743arrow-down16
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-29 hours agoLinux doesn’t run on anything below a 385 because it requires a MMU. (Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours ago386 support was dropped years ago.
minus-squareKnightontheSun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoWhat can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoYou can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.
Linux doesn’t run on anything below a 385 because it requires a MMU.
(Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
386 support was dropped years ago.
What can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?
You can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.