@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agoI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.eeimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1781
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•edit-22 months 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 Refurbisherlinkfedilink2•2 months 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.
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.)
386 support was dropped years ago.
What can I run on a Transmeta Crusoe?
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.