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[-] Robin@lemmy.world 181 points 1 week ago

This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s

[-] kubica@fedia.io 50 points 1 week ago

To be fair Its lifetime had ended, so rust took the ownership.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 86 points 1 week ago

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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've seen Linux kernels powering eletrical instalations control monitors. I'd risk we can say that if it runs on electric impulses, it can run Linux.

When will EVs be jailbroken?

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 1 week ago

Car infotainment systems already run on Linux. Tesla famously use Ubuntu.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

The entire car. Not the infotainement alone.

[-] faerbit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

You likely know this, but you really, really, really, really do not want stuff like your airbag controller to run a preemptive task switching operating system.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago

systemctl enable --now systemd-airbagd

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 55 points 1 week ago

You guys run a motherboard? Im just running 2 diodes and a vacuum tube to manually type in all the 1s and 0s that make up the linux kernel /j

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 week ago

That's nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago
[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

BirdFS is a pretty efficient file system, in the sense that it retrieves items from an infinite disk that you didn't even know you wanted. The read speed is several times a day, and the write speed I'm still currently waiting on a metric there

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

I didn't think rust was required

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago

Rust has been a part of the kernel since 6.8.

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

anyone else felt the impending finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 26 points 1 week ago

The PC will not boot without a blood sacrifice. This one is just extra thirsty.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

There are people out there powering their PC with electricity ... what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.

I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.

[-] PolarKraken@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago

Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.

[-] azha@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

War makes you unrecognizable, buddy.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 34 points 1 week ago

I think you'll find that's the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.

[-] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Indeed, I see a gfx card in there, and cables.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Very funny, but I actually used to own a computer that didn't meet the minimum requirements for Linux.

(Not my pic, but the same model.)

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid.  Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif

LOL!

That isn't the same limitation I was thinking of, though.

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I wasn't confident which requirement you were missing, but I love that error

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I was under the impression that the main impediment to running Linux on a 286 was the lack of an MMU. I might be wrong about that, though.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Linux doesn't run on anything below a 386 because it requires a MMU.

(Some people have made forks that can run on 286s etc., but those changes have never been part of the mainline kernel.)

You can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.

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[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They tried running Linux on their ENIAC, but someone accidentally tipped over one of the crates of punch cards which has unfortunately set the project back a few months.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 week ago

We are Tandy buddies!

Still looking for an original monitor.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I used to have one of those! Well before I ever knew about Linux, but it was great fun making little stuff in BASIC and playing with actually floppy disks.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm sad that my parents eventually forced me to get rid of it. At least I kept the keyboard, though.

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[-] Hupf@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago

Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.

[-] jodanlime@midwest.social 17 points 1 week ago

I see a SATA cable, so I'm guessing it will work fine.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 1 week ago

Overkill.

I used to run a router on a 386 from a floppy disk.

[-] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago

You do not need a case and discrete GPU. Way above minimum requirements! :)

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Man I love Lubuntu, it's such a tiny distro that makes even old as fuck machines semi functional for modern usage.

Even those weird ass atom netbooks work like a charm with it and you can actually do decent work on them!

And the best part is that the UI keeps being understandable by average windows users

Great distro,.10/10, would install on a Compaq laptop again

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[-] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 1 week ago

I must still have a Pentium S with Windows 98 back at my mom's house. Now I am wondering if it could run Linux.

[-] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

If you're not planning to run GUI

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[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say

Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

There is a number of crabs that can run linux

[-] Errorcode7@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

That graphics card is too nice

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

I revived a friend's old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of "nerd creds". Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago
[-] azha@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Put it in rice first

[-] BaronRivendare@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

My Amilo L1310G likes this

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

But can you run Linux on hard drive controller chip?

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[-] Xkaliber@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I literally LOL'ed. Just wanted to say that

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