Squeak on Linux Framebuffer??

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Thu Apr 12 19:08:54 UTC 2001



Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Mayuresh A Kathe wrote:
> 
> > Does it have framebuffer support?
> >
> > If yes, then running Squeak on HURD would be a better alternative than
> > running it on Linux.
> 
> I don't know if it's wise to persue a kernel that ties a SqueakOS to only
> one platform.  It seems to not go with the spirit of Squeak and Smalltalk
> in general.
> 
> To quote from the HURD Reference:
> "Currently, the Hurd only runs on Intel i386-compatible architectures"

Hurd runs on the Mach kernel. Wouldn't running directly on top of Mach
be a better solution. Mach is ported to numerous platforms and 
probably does not have a boring license issue with the Squeak license.

Karl





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