The Icon Bar: General: Linux mate?
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Linux mate? |
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(16:32 14/6/2000)
Matrix (18:43 15/6/2000)
archavenge (22:38 13/8/2000)
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monkeyson |
Message #1394, posted at 16:32, 14/6/2000 |
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Has anybody got Linux running on a riscstation or mico? If I were to consider buying one of these machines it would be tres important (to do "real computing" at university - I use the RISC OS apps by choice, but I need to get much more experienced in using Linux... :) If not, is anybody in the business of doing the port? Is it correct that the kernel would have to be rewritten/compiled because of the major hardware differences between the RS/Mico and previous Acorn computers? What about the speed of it? Do the same rules (of compact code, program elegance vs brute processor speed) apply to Linux as they do to RISC OS? Or would the 50mhz processor be really rather poor for Linux? I understand it can run on the A5000 but is that just the CLI, or with X-Windows and all that galumph? Too many questions methinks... |
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Matrix |
Message #1395, posted at 18:43, 15/6/2000, in reply to message #1394 |
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Well i have ARMLinux for RiscPC, i think that the major problems are about the new busses and the board optimizzation, but i'm not an Linux expert so i don't know very well the right solution.... |
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archavenge |
Message #1396, posted at 22:38, 13/8/2000, in reply to message #1394 |
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In reply to your questions concerning linux, I have to say the answer to many bits of them is no!! Unless you want to continually put up with CLI, Linux slugs like treacle!! I'm sorry to advocates, but it's a s***e OS for single user day-to-day use!! RiscOS is fast, elegant, efficient, friendly, fairly stable and good looking. Linux is very stable. I have noticed that there is often very little need to mpve away from RiscOS for anything! I've just done a Physics investigation (degree level) on quantum heterostructures, I did all the programming in Basic64 - absolutely no need to run and use a super computer and write it in C!! Yours Sincerely,
ryan
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