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Linux To Gain Another Chip Family

Posted by timothy on from the assimilation-nation dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Freescale will unveil the first ColdFire processors ever to include a memory management unit (MMU), and therefore able to run full-scale Linux, this week at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif. The chips cost $17 - $25, and are used mostly in industrial control and factory automation. Simultaneously, Freescale tools subsidiary Metrowerks announced plans to offer Linux development tools for Coldfire chips, which previously had been restricted to running uClinux due to the lack of an MMU."

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  1. first one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    one first

  2. Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think you mean NetBSD.

  3. Yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Another Slashdot article not posted by Roll-and Pukepaille!

  4. Obligatory Clemens quote: by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.

  5. Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, but does it play Ogg Vorbis?

  6. cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cool. no wait, it snot

  7. Roadside bomb with Sarin explodes in Iraq by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Where the WMDs are.

    But Iraq didn't have WMDs!

    1. Re:Roadside bomb with Sarin explodes in Iraq by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And I suspect that we will have a sarin attack here in the USA in about the sept/oct. time frame. Of couse, they will never find out who did it, but it will be blamed on Al Qaeda. It will follow the same pattern as the anthrax.

      That is it will be obvious to those in the know, that the "attack" required several people working together. But later, one person will be accused of having done it get attention.

  8. hello by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a quote i heard from a Metrowerks employee:

    "I like monkeys"

    ok, it wasn't a Metrowerks employee, but i like monkeys.

  9. You are deluded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There will be no "more modern" AmigaOS. Several months ago Amiga, Inc. sold off its AmigaOS rights to its investor Itech, which in turn sold them to a newly created corporation called KMOS. KMOS does not stand for anything. Its only "product" is AmigaOS. It is incorporated in Delaware, which is a notorious tax and regulation shelter.

    Now, there are three things you could believe:
    1. That Itech dumped the Amiga IP on a dummy corporation in order to protect its Amiga, Inc. investments from ongoing lawsuits, similar to the Novell/Canopy shuffles. (most likely)
    2. Alternatively, that KMOS CEO (and seemingly sole employee) Garry Hare is really serious about moving AmigaOS into the cellphone market. (a little bit likely)
    3. Or else, against all likelihood and the public statements of its CEO, that KMOS's primary goal is to get a new, working AmigaOS up and running.

    If you believe the last one then I'd like to interest you in some Florida real estate that I'm selling through my own Delaware corporation. Face it, AmigaOS is finally dead this time. Move on to AROS or something, or just stop deluding yourself entirely and move to Mac or Linux or XP.