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.
That's nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence
BirdFS is a pretty efficient file system, in the sense that it retrieves items from an infinite disk that you didn't even know you wanted. The read speed is several times a day, and the write speed I'm still currently waiting on a metric there
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've seen videos of people running Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.
None of them are very recent, so I don't know how well 'modern' DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.
I installed Debian Buster and ran Firefox on my Pentium 3 750 a couple of years ago. It wasn't very fast or very usable, but I ran it.
I mostly use that system for retro games in DOS 6.2 and Windows 98. The Debian installation is my utility OS for when I want to transfer new stuff to the DOS partitions, because it's way easier to connect it to the network.
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!
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Robin@lemmy.world · 186 pts · 1y
This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s
kubica@fedia.io · 53 pts · 1y
To be fair Its lifetime had ended, so rust took the ownership.
LostXOR@fedia.io · 90 pts · 1y
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 1y
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?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 10 pts · 1y
Car infotainment systems already run on Linux. Tesla famously use Ubuntu.
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
The entire car. Not the infotainement alone.
faerbit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
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.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 1y
systemctl enable --now systemd-airbagdTabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 56 pts · 1y
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
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 1y
That's nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 1y
I just use butterflies
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I love this comment
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
BirdFS is a pretty efficient file system, in the sense that it retrieves items from an infinite disk that you didn't even know you wanted. The read speed is several times a day, and the write speed I'm still currently waiting on a metric there
GroundedGator@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 1y
I didn't think rust was required
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 1y
Rust has been a part of the kernel since 6.8.
qprimed@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 1y
anyone else felt the impending finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.
Sabata11792@ani.social · 26 pts · 1y
The PC will not boot without a blood sacrifice. This one is just extra thirsty.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
There are people out there powering their PC with electricity ... what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.
I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.
PolarKraken@programming.dev · 17 pts · 1y
Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.
azha@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
War makes you unrecognizable, buddy.
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk · 34 pts · 1y
I think you'll find that's the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
Indeed, I see a gfx card in there, and cables.
grue@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
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.)
ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/math-emu/double.h#L29
grue@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
LOL!
That isn't the same limitation I was thinking of, though.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I wasn't confident which requirement you were missing, but I love that error
grue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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.
swab148@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
What was it, the ENIAC?
grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
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.)
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
386 support was dropped years ago.
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
What can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 1y
We are Tandy buddies!
Still looking for an original monitor.
grue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I'm sad that my parents eventually forced me to get rid of it. At least I kept the keyboard, though.
swab148@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
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.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
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.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
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.
Hupf@feddit.org · 20 pts · 1y
Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.
jodanlime@midwest.social · 17 pts · 1y
I see a SATA cable, so I'm guessing it will work fine.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 14 pts · 1y
Overkill.
I used to run a router on a 386 from a floppy disk.
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 1y
You do not need a case and discrete GPU. Way above minimum requirements! :)
pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br · 10 pts · 1y
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.
lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
If you're not planning to run GUI
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
I've seen videos of people running Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.
None of them are very recent, so I don't know how well 'modern' DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y
I installed Debian Buster and ran Firefox on my Pentium 3 750 a couple of years ago. It wasn't very fast or very usable, but I ran it.
I mostly use that system for retro games in DOS 6.2 and Windows 98. The Debian installation is my utility OS for when I want to transfer new stuff to the DOS partitions, because it's way easier to connect it to the network.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
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
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
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
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
There is a number of crabs that can run linux
Errorcode7@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y
That graphics card is too nice
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
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!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Yeah don't plug that in
azha@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Put it in rice first
pewpew@feddit.it · 3 pts · 1y
Looks like a Cybertruck
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
But can you run Linux on hard drive controller chip?
amon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
ye with mips emulation
BaronRivendare@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
My Amilo L1310G likes this
coldaf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Some nails and coal are pretty enough.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Le potato
Xkaliber@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I literally LOL'ed. Just wanted to say that