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Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-will-go-over-well dept.

girlmad tips this news from the Inquirer: "Intel's Clover Trail Atom processor can be seen in various non-descript laptops around IDF and the firm provided a lot of architectural details on the chip, confirming details such as dual-core and a number of power states. However Intel said Clover Trail 'is a Windows 8 chip' and that 'the chip cannot run Linux.' While Intel's claim that Clover Trail won't run Linux is not quite true — after all, it is an x86 instruction set, so there is no major reason why the Linux kernel and userland will not run — given that the firm will not support it, device makers are unlikely to produce Linux Clover Trail devices for their own support reasons."

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  1. Re:They've got it backwards. by jawtheshark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Operating systems don't like it when you anthropomorphize them? ;-)

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  2. Re:They've got it backwards. by Dyinobal · · Score: 4, Funny

    The original comment made me think of Linux powered Velociraptors.

  3. Re:They've got it backwards. by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Funny

    it IS magic. you really can get new kernels for hardware that has no docs released. you simply cat from /dev/skyfairy. a new kernel is given to you if the skyfairy device thinks you are worthy.

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  4. Re:Really, Linux won't (currently) support CT by crazyjj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bringing reason into a discussion about Windows vs. Linux *AND* actually reading the article?!?!

    Sir, I demand you surrender your Slashdot membership card!

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  5. Re:They've got it backwards. by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.

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  6. Re:They've got it backwards. by Noryungi · · Score: 4, Funny

    A beowulf cluster of Linux-powered Velociraptors? I'd pay good money to see that. From a safe distance.

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  7. Re:They've got it backwards. by MikeBabcock · · Score: 5, Funny

    #!/bin/sh
    # million monkeys sky fairy code generator
    ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/skyfairy
    dd if=/dev/skyfairy of=/boot/bzImage bs=1k count=3000
    reboot

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  8. Re:They've got it backwards. by Noryungi · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to do a "mknod /dev/tooth bp" for /dev/skyfairy to create the new kernel. The temporary device is deleted after the kernel creation is completed.

    On some versions of Linux 3.x, you may need to init /dev/tooth for /dev/skyfairy to work correctly. Do read the man page.

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  9. Re:They've got it backwards. by unitron · · Score: 4, Funny

    But how can you be sure?

    There's only one way.

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    I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.

  10. Re:antitrust issues? by arth1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I could count on one hand the number of Windows 8 users worldwide and I think that 7 of them are bored with it.

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