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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.)

    ~pi/joshua/nontoxic/whatever

  4. 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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