Squeak on Linux Framebuffer??

Aaron J Reichow reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Thu Apr 12 18:57:29 UTC 2001


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"

Aaron

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