This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s
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To be fair Its lifetime had ended, so rust took the ownership.
Linux System Requirements:
- Computer (optional)
I've seen Linux kernels powering eletrical instalations control monitors. I'd risk we can say that if it runs on electric impulses, it can run Linux.
When will EVs be jailbroken?
Car infotainment systems already run on Linux. Tesla famously use Ubuntu.
The entire car. Not the infotainement alone.
You likely know this, but you really, really, really, really do not want stuff like your airbag controller to run a preemptive task switching operating system.
systemctl enable --now systemd-airbagd
You guys run a motherboard? Im just running 2 diodes and a vacuum tube to manually type in all the 1s and 0s that make up the linux kernel /j
I didn't think rust was required
Rust has been a part of the kernel since 6.8.
I think you'll find that's the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.
Indeed, I see a gfx card in there, and cables.
Very funny, but I actually used to own a computer that didn't meet the minimum requirements for Linux.
(Not my pic, but the same model.)
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif
LOL!
That isn't the same limitation I was thinking of, though.
I wasn't confident which requirement you were missing, but I love that error
I was under the impression that the main impediment to running Linux on a 286 was the lack of an MMU. I might be wrong about that, though.
What was it, the ENIAC?
Linux doesn't run on anything below a 386 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.)
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.
What can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?
386 support was dropped years ago.
They tried running Linux on their ENIAC, but someone accidentally tipped over one of the crates of punch cards which has unfortunately set the project back a few months.
We are Tandy buddies!
Still looking for an original monitor.
I'm sad that my parents eventually forced me to get rid of it. At least I kept the keyboard, though.
I used to have one of those! Well before I ever knew about Linux, but it was great fun making little stuff in BASIC and playing with actually floppy disks.
What we had that couldn't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/2_Model_30
Work was getting rid of them so my dad bought it. Great machine, learned a ton.
I installed Tiny Core Linux on an old ass netbook laptop on which even Windows 7 kinda lagged. Went CLI only, no DE and made the laptop thousand times more usable. I've basically repurposed that laptop as an external hard drive for things I don't need backed up but good to have a backup of.
Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.
I see a SATA cable, so I'm guessing it will work fine.
Overkill.
I used to run a router on a 386 from a floppy disk.
You do not need a case and discrete GPU. Way above minimum requirements! :)
Man I love Lubuntu, it's such a tiny distro that makes even old as fuck machines semi functional for modern usage.
Even those weird ass atom netbooks work like a charm with it and you can actually do decent work on them!
And the best part is that the UI keeps being understandable by average windows users
Great distro,.10/10, would install on a Compaq laptop again
Xubuntu brought a garbage Vista era system to usable levels for me for a dumb video I made a while ago, wasn't fast but definitely usable.
I must still have a Pentium S with Windows 98 back at my mom's house. Now I am wondering if it could run Linux.
Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say
Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once
There is a number of crabs that can run linux
That graphics card is too nice
I revived a friend's old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of "nerd creds". Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!
Yeah don't plug that in
Put it in rice first
My Amilo L1310G likes this
Looks like a Cybertruck
But can you run Linux on hard drive controller chip?
ye with mips emulation
Le potato
Some nails and coal are pretty enough.
I literally LOL'ed. Just wanted to say that