"Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:52882@palm-dev-forum...
> > > No, it wouldn't. Palm is an advanced notebook, and 16MHz processor
> > > can't run linux in graphics ... Nowadays linux requires more than 2 Mb
> > > of RAM and more than 16 (and even 33) MHz.
> >
> > There's nothing in the design of linux that makes it require more than
> > 16 MHz. I don't know what the minimum memory requirements of a bare
> > Linux kernel would be, but I'm betting that the kernel could run in 2MB
> > (although it may be pretty cramped).
>
> ahem..
>
> http://www.uclinux.com/
Exactly... It *can* be done, but although these guys have a Linux kernel for
the Dragonball, it's not possible to run it on a standard Palm device. If
you read into it a little more, you'll see that one guy actually got it up
on a Palm Pro with a TRG board. But who has one of those????
Alan
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