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m4tic
April 1st, 2012, 07:31 AM
http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07.%20Linux%20on%208bit

BeRoot ReBoot
April 1st, 2012, 10:38 AM
Correction: Ubuntu running on an 8MHz AVR CPU running an ARM emulator at 6.5 KHz.

CharlesA
April 1st, 2012, 02:21 PM
Heh, 6 hours to boot completely. No thanks.

zombifier25
April 1st, 2012, 02:22 PM
They should have tried something lighter like Puppy :D

samalex
April 2nd, 2012, 07:30 PM
That is freaking amazing! I have a few old 8088 laptops I'd LOVE to run Linux on, and it'd be neat to see a side project where someone slimmed down the kernel small enough to run on those old systems.