[TriLUG] linux on Palm

[David McDowell]

Interesting stuff... I'm not near hacker enough to futz with it to
make it work.  I'll take something known and documented or I'll just
leave it as is.  :)  thanks!

On Apr 10, 2005 9:34 AM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> > I broke down and have an OLD palm M105...
> > I haven't searched to see if there is a DSL for it. (damn small linux)
> > could be a whole new thread if so...
> 
> uClinux was originally designed to run on the Palm (specifically,
> on the Motorola Dragonball processor).  It's not the same as a
> "normal" Linux distro.  Instead, it's more like an embedded OS
> like vxWorks.  They made substantial changes to the kernel to
> allow it to run in a flat memory space with no MMU.  But you
> can run a shell, and it's fairly easy (according to them) to port
> apps to run under uClinux.
> 
> The name "uClinux" comes from "uC" meaning micro-controller.
> 
> See http://www.uclinux.org/
> or even better,
> http://www.arcturusnetworks.com/Docs/AboutuClinux.pdf
> 
> Alan
> 
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