@azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 22 days agoI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.eeimagemessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageI think the motherboard is enough?lemm.ee@azha@lemm.ee to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 22 days agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-square@grue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•edit-222 days agoLinux doesn’t run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU. (Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisherlinkfedilink0•22 days agoYou can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.
Linux doesn’t run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU.
(Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)
You can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.