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[-] Robin@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s

[-] kubica@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

To be fair Its lifetime had ended, so rust took the ownership.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 22 points 1 month ago

Linux System Requirements:

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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've seen Linux kernels powering eletrical instalations control monitors. I'd risk we can say that if it runs on electric impulses, it can run Linux.

When will EVs be jailbroken?

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago

Car infotainment systems already run on Linux. Tesla famously use Ubuntu.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

The entire car. Not the infotainement alone.

[-] faerbit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

You likely know this, but you really, really, really, really do not want stuff like your airbag controller to run a preemptive task switching operating system.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago

systemctl enable --now systemd-airbagd

[-] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 month ago

You do not need a case and discrete GPU. Way above minimum requirements! :)

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

anyone else felt the impending finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.

[-] PolarKraken@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.

[-] azha@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

War makes you unrecognizable, buddy.

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 11 points 1 month ago

You guys run a motherboard? Im just running 2 diodes and a vacuum tube to manually type in all the 1s and 0s that make up the linux kernel /j

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

That's nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago
[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

BirdFS is a pretty efficient file system, in the sense that it retrieves items from an infinite disk that you didn't even know you wanted. The read speed is several times a day, and the write speed I'm still currently waiting on a metric there

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say

Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

There is a number of crabs that can run linux

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I didn't think rust was required

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Rust has been a part of the kernel since 6.8.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very funny, but I actually used to own a computer that didn't meet the minimum requirements for Linux.

(Not my pic, but the same model.)

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid.  Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif

LOL!

That isn't the same limitation I was thinking of, though.

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I wasn't confident which requirement you were missing, but I love that error

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was under the impression that the main impediment to running Linux on a 286 was the lack of an MMU. I might be wrong about that, though.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago

We are Tandy buddies!

Still looking for an original monitor.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm sad that my parents eventually forced me to get rid of it. At least I kept the keyboard, though.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.)

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.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They tried running Linux on their ENIAC, but someone accidentally tipped over one of the crates of punch cards which has unfortunately set the project back a few months.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

I revived a friend's old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of "nerd creds". Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I think you'll find that's the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Indeed, I see a gfx card in there, and cables.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

But can you run Linux on hard drive controller chip?

[-] amon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

ye with mips emulation

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago

Looks like a Cybertruck

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] coldaf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Some nails and coal are pretty enough.

[-] Xkaliber@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I literally LOL'ed. Just wanted to say that

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Man I love Lubuntu, it's such a tiny distro that makes even old as fuck machines semi functional for modern usage.

Even those weird ass atom netbooks work like a charm with it and you can actually do decent work on them!

And the best part is that the UI keeps being understandable by average windows users

Great distro,.10/10, would install on a Compaq laptop again

[-] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 month ago

I must still have a Pentium S with Windows 98 back at my mom's house. Now I am wondering if it could run Linux.

[-] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

If you're not planning to run GUI

[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've seen videos of people running Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.

None of them are very recent, so I don't know how well 'modern' DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

I installed Debian Buster and ran Firefox on my Pentium 3 750 a couple of years ago. It wasn't very fast or very usable, but I ran it.

I mostly use that system for retro games in DOS 6.2 and Windows 98. The Debian installation is my utility OS for when I want to transfer new stuff to the DOS partitions, because it's way easier to connect it to the network.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago
[-] azha@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Put it in rice first

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