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Palmtop NetBSD

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the small-installations dept.

BSD Forums writes "'Of course it runs NetBSD.' NetBSD is fantastically portable, but that doesn't make it supremely easy to install on oddball hardware like a Dreamcast or a palmtop computer. Michael Lucas demonstrates cross-installation with the HP Jornada."

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  1. portability by Twister002 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone know of a linux or BSD based distro that will install on an old Palm Pilot? Not the III or V lines, the original lines. I've got one just sitting around. I've already got a replacement for it I just want to play around with it. Does anyone have any links for instructions on installing Linux (or any other OS) on them?

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  2. TI 89 by Elie+De+Brauwer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When will somebody port it to my TI-89 calculator machine. It has a MC68k processor in it.

  3. Re:Full text: by parkanoid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Erm. I did not realize a quick cut'n'paste aimed at alleviating the slashdot effect would be considered a reprint. Please pardon me, normally it isn't a problem.

  4. Open-source OSes on Handheld Devices by The+Pi-Guy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For those of you out there who own a Compaq/HP iPAQ, and would like to run an Open-source OS on it, it is currently possibly to run Linux on it, thanks to HP's Cambridge Research Labs, and of course many contributors around the world. For more, please visit Handhelds.org. (For what it's worth, I am the person who is porting Linux to the iPAQ h1910 - and no, I am not paid by HP.)

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  5. Well...perhaps it isn't. by fireboy1919 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But I don't see how it's as portable as it claims. It's nearly impossible to build a cross-compiler for Linux from netbsd, especially if you don't have the libraries and headers already compiled for you. I've been trying fruitlessly for several years now.

    Palmtop NetBSD isn't that desirable for me, because I'd have to sacrifice using a Linux distro if I wanted to do cross-compiles. Of course, if I'm wrong, I'd love to know it. :)

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  6. BSD... when was it behind? by vcbumg2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can do the same thing with Linux you can do with BSDs.
    It is how they do it that is different I have found that once you know how a bsd system works I can quickly cut out a system that does what I want and nothing that I dont.
    For me BSDs a cleaner simpler and just as powerful as any free or commercial Unix out there on a few processors.
    I have a IBM z50 running NetBSD and X11 and a webserver on a 265mg CF!!! and I know every process that executes and why.

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