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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