Re: [BLACKBOX] Seasoned Linux.

From: [at]} <Bob>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:22:10 -0000

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> I am running coLinux downloaded from Analog Devices website. It is
> described here:
> http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=colinux
[...]
> I would say that coLinux is the least painful way to dive into Linux
> development, whether #1, #2, or #3.
>

Thanks. I'm not particularly interested in Linux itself, just in generic
Unixy stuff at the moment, Minix3 in particular because it inhabits a
similar minimalist world to Oberon.

You can run a full-on POSIX-compliant kernel alongside Windows using the
Interix subsystem, which MS supplies and supports, and I did that for a
while, with Xming, last year as a learning exercise, but I'm more interested
in bare metal operating systems than in running one on top of another.

> Compared with the usual pain of
> installing Linux, coLinux is sheer pleasure. You do not need to
> repartition your disk or install lilo or anything like that.

I have recently repartitioned one of my PCs to run Windows, native Oberon
and Minix 3, although I'm struggling to get NO working on it (I've been
using NO on another old machine for years, but it doesn't have working
network hardware, hence the new old machine). I've set up the Minix
partition as the active one and from there, if I miss the F12 during the
POST routine it's simple to reboot from one of the other partitions - no
need for lilo or other boot managers.

There is no point to this other than to exercise my curiosity really, but
I'm fascinated by Wirth's idea of providing security through language design
rather than by running a kernel in a privileged address space.

> Here is a good info webpage concerning Linux, with book recommendation:
>
> http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=references_and_pointers
>
> Finally, the Linz Oberon 1.7 for Linux can be downloaded from
> sourceforge:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oberon/
> oberon-1.7.02.tar.gz
>
> In the latter archive there should be some useful hints how the V4 was
> put
> on top of Linux.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> W.

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