Hello World! on modern processors.

From: Absurdly Obtuse <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Aug 23 11:45:42 2001

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, John W. Linville wrote:

> > 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?

I agree. However, Linux is still *somewhat* x86-centric. Also, I don't
necessarily think WindowsNT on Alpha and PowerPC should be disregarded
completely. ELKS is excellent. Period. I've never had problems with
it. I have with MINIX though. (I build controllers for industrial
robots.) But, if you truly want to go multiplatform, NetBSD is the one to
beat. I run it on six platforms myself.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 11:45:42 BST