26 Feb
2013
26 Feb
'13
5:50 p.m.
On 26 February 2013 00:50, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
It looks like some sort of AROS distro might be an option as well.
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about that.
Yes, the AROS team are working on an ARM version, but AFAIK, at the
moment, it can only run loaded as an application running under ARM
Linux with X.11 or possibly under QEMU. It cannot yet actually boot on
ARM hardware.
Given that the Rpi struggles a bit with graphical Linux anyway, it's
not really an alternative at the moment.
But if or when they ever do produce a native-booting version, that
will indeed be an option. AROS is small, slim and fast compared to
modern x86 OSs - although it's relatively feature-poor, and like the
AmigaOS 3 that it seeks to replicate, it has no VM, no memory
protection, no user security or anything. It does have a TCP/IP stack
and Web clients, though.]
At the moment, TTBOMK, there are 4 OSs that run on Rpi:
* Linux, obviously, as used on 99% of Pis
* RISC OS - a feature-complete port, but so far lacking graphics
acceleration etc.
* Preliminary just-about-booting ports of NetBSD and FreeBSD
There'a a boot manager but I am not sure it can handle anything except Linux:
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot
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26 Feb
8:53 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:50:07PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
On 26 February 2013 00:50, Zane H. Healy <healyzh
at aracnet.com> wrote:
There is also Plan9, but I haven't tested that yet.
It looks like some sort of AROS distro might be an option as well.
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about that.
Yes, the AROS team are working on an ARM version, but AFAIK, at the
moment, it can only run loaded as an application running under ARM
Linux with X.11 or possibly under QEMU. It cannot yet actually boot on
ARM hardware.
Given that the Rpi struggles a bit with graphical Linux anyway, it's
not really an alternative at the moment.
But if or when they ever do produce a native-booting version, that
will indeed be an option. AROS is small, slim and fast compared to
modern x86 OSs - although it's relatively feature-poor, and like the
AmigaOS 3 that it seeks to replicate, it has no VM, no memory
protection, no user security or anything. It does have a TCP/IP stack
and Web clients, though.]
At the moment, TTBOMK, there are 4 OSs that run on Rpi:
* Linux, obviously, as used on 99% of Pis
* RISC OS - a feature-complete port, but so far lacking graphics
acceleration etc. * Preliminary just-about-booting ports of NetBSD and
FreeBSD
NetBSD is quite a bit further along than "just-about-booting". It boots,
supports USB, the network adapter and even enough of the graphics to run
X via framebuffer console. It seems to be pretty stable - I've been running
one of the development versions on one of my Raspberries for 2+ weeks now,
most of the time occupied with building stuff from pkgsrc. Yes, NetBSD is
rather slow on it - partly because it doesn't yet support DMA for USB,
so there is plenty of room for improvement. But it works ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
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looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
11:06 p.m.
On 27 Feb 2013 03:50, "Alexander Schreiber" <als at thangorodrim.de>
wrote:
running
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:50:07PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
I found out about that this evening, from this thread!
On 26 February 2013 00:50, Zane H. Healy
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
There is also Plan9, but I haven't tested that yet.
It looks like some sort of AROS distro might be an option as well.
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about that.
Yes, the AROS team are working on an ARM version, but AFAIK, at the
moment, it can only run loaded as an application running under ARM
Linux with X.11 or possibly under QEMU. It cannot yet actually boot on
ARM hardware.
Given that the Rpi struggles a bit with graphical Linux anyway, it's
not really an alternative at the moment.
But if or when they ever do produce a native-booting version, that
will indeed be an option. AROS is small, slim and fast compared to
modern x86 OSs - although it's relatively feature-poor, and like the
AmigaOS 3 that it seeks to replicate, it has no VM, no memory
protection, no user security or anything. It does have a TCP/IP stack
and Web clients, though.]
At the moment, TTBOMK, there are 4 OSs that run on Rpi:
* Linux, obviously, as used on 99% of Pis
* RISC OS - a feature-complete port, but so far lacking graphics
acceleration etc. * Preliminary
just-about-booting ports of NetBSD and FreeBSD
NetBSD is quite a bit further along than "just-about-booting". It boots,
supports USB, the network adapter and even enough of the graphics to run
X via framebuffer console. It seems to be pretty stable - I've been one of the development versions on one of my
Raspberries for 2+ weeks now,
most of the time occupied with building stuff from pkgsrc. Yes, NetBSD is
rather slow on it - partly because it doesn't yet support DMA for USB,
so there is plenty of room for improvement. But it works ;-)
I am happy to hear this & apologize for my inadvertent disinformation.
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