Re: "Linux ported to non MMU system"

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

> Quite interesting. But what's the use of Linux on an ordinary ST, when
> MiNT is already a bit slow on such a machine? Besides, I personally could

My experience is that Linux is very fast and efficient, so I don't
think that's a problem.

> install normal Linux/68k (68030), but no use of Linux for me as long as
> the system is not GEM compatible. So I prefer MiNT.

If you run MiNTOS on a standard ST you're probably not using GEM (that
would cripple both MiNTOS and GEM) anyway. The biggest problem would
probably be the lack of memory, I can't imagine that you can do
anything sensible with Linux on a 4Mb machine without VM. 


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