23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
7:06 p.m.
John W. Linville skrev:
Iggy Drougge wrote:
>
> Gordon C. Zaft skrev:
>
> > Linux != x86.
>
> Effectively, Linux is as i386-centred as Win NT. Nominally, it might not
> be.
That is a VERY unenlightened (and incorrect) opinion.
There are a
number of highly function distributions for a variety of systems raging
from the PalmPilot to an S/390 mainframe. The Linux kernel runs on at
least 8 major processor families with a number of variations within each
family. Probably the most interesting developments currently in the
Linux community are in the embedded systems arena. Perhaps you should
pick-up a copy of Embedded Linux Journal sometime and have a look?
Oh, but can you go out and buy yourself an m68k/MIPS/PPC meainstream distro in
the bookshop, or can you buy any software for non-i386 platforms? Usually not.
Yes, you can run "ls" and "more", as wellas "ifconfig", but
beyond that? What
about Netscape?
Embedded systems are a moot point, since they're in an entirely different
field and reduces Linux to a kernel as opposed to the desktop/server OS which
is what most people know Linux as.
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