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Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy

Posted by timothy on from the does-it-play-space-travel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amit Singh has a piece on his site about running the 5th edition UNIX distribution on a Nintendo Gameboy, of all things. Tons of screenshots and source included but what really makes this entertaining and informational in an ubergeekly sort of way is his side stories on UNIX history ... ARM CPU ... compiling and running random programs on the Gameboy, etc. There are even notes on recompiling the original Unix kernel to make it smaller for the GBA!"

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  1. Old style gameboy by webgit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I first read the headline I thought it was refering to the original gameboy with the tiny black and white screen and I didn't really see the point of doing it.

    Although, even now I know which one it is I'm still not entirely convinced this is all that useful either!

    I'm probably just missing the point, which is something like because I can!

  2. Re:The Great Wall Tycoon.... by iDaZe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, Nintendo has been active since 1889. There's more to gaming then computers you know. IIRC they used to make card-games.

  3. All fine and well... but... by Mad+Ogre · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What can you do with it? I'm not impressed with Linux on an iPod or Unix in the game boy or Linux in the XboX things... If you can't DO anything productive with it, It's useless. I don't care if you can put Linux in my digital watch.

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    MadOgre.com
    1. Re:All fine and well... but... by flithm · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not impressed with Linux on the XBOX!? What's the matter with you!? How about converting your xbox into a full PVR that you can access via the web to start and stop recording, or hell that you can access via ssh or telnet!

      Linux on the XBOX is freakin' cool! It's basically a full linux PC for 200 bucks.