azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.eeimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1691arrow-down15
arrow-up1686arrow-down1imageI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.eeazha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 hours agoLinux 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.)
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 minutes 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.
minus-squareKnightontheSun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoWhat can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours ago386 support was dropped years ago.
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.