[SLUG] Scarborough Apple Users Group 8-)

[Stuart Thomas]

Yes off to a wedding Paris, I'd love to meet up though.

Stu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Baker" <gav at supercowpowers.org>
To: "SLUG" <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Scarborough Apple Users Group 8-)


> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:05, Carl.Dixon wrote
>
> > This is "Guy with really flashy laptop" as Gav put it, but you can call
me
> > Carl.
>
> Hi Carl :)
>
> > First of all I would like to say cheers to everyone who went to the LUG
> > meeting last Tuesday for welcoming me into the group, despite me
corrupting
> > several other members with the Apple stuff. Now Jamie's buying an iBook
the
> > Mac users will soon be in the majority. SLUG will soon be SAUG!
>
> It was great to see a new face (2 actually) and I'm glad to hear we
> didn't scare ya off ;)
>
> Apple hardware is fantastic. Linux loves it.
>
> > <snip>
>
> > Someone asked me about Linux on the 68k processor. You can get Debian,
MkLinux
> > OpenBSD and NetBSD (if that counts). I thought that there were more but
can't
> > find any others. Of all the ISOs you can download, I can't see any that
don't
> > require an MMU so getting it onto my Powerbook 540C could be tricky.
Debian
> > needs 16mb RAM too (I only have 12) and on the 160MB hard drive there
would
> > only be room for a minimal console-based system (not even enough room
for
> > Emacs OS!).
>
> Ahh of course, MkLinux. I forgot about that one. (obsd/nbsd don't use
> linux kernels of course).
>
> You can get linux to run on MMU-less[1] machines with patches from
> uClinux[2] (an embedded kernel). It would be a grand pain in the ass
> though, as the patches are against 2.5.x kernels, and you would have to
> cross compile a new kernel from an existing Linux install on a different
> machine. You can't run linux on it, so you can't compile a new kernel on
> it.. chicken..egg.
>
> I knew I had read about MMU-less Linux recently somewhere though.
>
> [1] http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20021028_190.html#16
> [2] http://www.uClinux.org
>
> > Chris mentioned maybe having the next LUG meeting before I got back to
Uni on
> > the 14th September. If that is okay with everyone I would appreciate it.
I
> > would like to see everyone again before I go as I told lots of people
I'd get
> > them distros/software/music/find out how to turn their pooters off, and
it
> > will be the last one I can attend until Xmas.
>
> I'm going to Madrid on the 3rd sept for a couple of weeks, so I probably
> won't see you before christmas. So, errm, Merry Christmas! :)
>
> Gav
>
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> Gavin Baker <gav at supercowpowers.org>
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