From: c9108932@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Simon J Ferrett) Subject: Re: Can you port Linux to my Refrigerator? Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 01:48:48 GMT
quinlan@rose.cs.bucknell.edu (Daniel Quinlan) writes:
>uberig@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (Jason Uberig) writes:
>> would be nice to see a port of Linux for the Atari ST/Falcon/etc. Is/has
>> anyone done this yet? I've heard a few rumors, but nothing substantial
>You know, I think that Linux should be ported to my refrigerator. I
>mean, it already has many built in features similar to Unix and I
>think that these facts should make a port simple.
[ rather funny analogy removed for brevity ]
>This "port Linux to everything thing phenomenon" is rather silly. Why
>on Earth would you want to port it to anything nobody uses anymore? I
well I think that instead of people porting something that was written
from ground up on a 386 to some(possibly completely different) architecture
(like a refrigerator) they should instead see the impact linux
has made on the PC community, see how it works and *write a different*
operating system for that machine, built from the ground up so that it
works 100% on that machine - theres no need to have "linux" as such
running on macs and amigas etc etc, they are looking for a program
which does the same job.
just my 0.02...
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