[Gllug] iPodLinux

Wed Jan 18 16:10:55 UTC 2006

How about Linux on old computers? I've heard of Linux on the Commodor
Amiga. How much older can we go? Commodor 64? BBC? Spectrum?
Valve-driven computers? :P

On 18/01/06, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:51:17PM +0000, Simon Morris wrote:
> > Richard Jones wrote:
> > >On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:09:35PM +0000, Gerard van Schip wrote:
> > > > If it takes electricity you can bet someone is trying to stick Linux
> > >on it.
> > >
> > >Come on we can do better than that.
> > >
> > >How about a robotic fish?
> > >
> > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4313266.stm
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I see you your robotic fish and I raise you a dead frog with an embedded
> > webserver
> >
> > http://www.conceptlab.com/frog/
>
> What about Linux running on a $100 handheld controlling an AIBO?
>
> http://www.aibohack.com/zipit/aibo.htm
> http://www.aibohack.com/zipit/index.html
>
> The AIBO itself sadly isn't running Linux, but it's not running its
> normal "OS" either.
>
> I'm tempted to wonder what is the _largest_ thing running Linux, and
> I'm not talking just about supercomputers with lots of nodes
> either.  I'm sure someone must have put Linux on a giant robot or a
> steam-powered analogue computer or something by now.
>
> Rich.
>
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