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matters 07-06-2009 03:47 PM
slackware on pda/phone howto
 
Is it possible to have slackware on pda? Is there any howto how can i have install linux from scratch on pda?

Thanks alot!

MS3FGX 07-06-2009 03:54 PM
No...

While there is an ARM port of Slackware (actually, a few, I think), it isn't designed to be installed onto PDAs and certainly not phones. You need a lot of custom work to get Linux running on hardware like that. The only phone/PDA platform you could feasibly run ARM Slackware on would be one of the phones from OpenMoko, because all of the information and tools are publicly available and there is a community behind it. You might be able to do it on a HTC G1 too, I believe you can install ARM Debian on that, so Slackware should be workable too.

matters 07-06-2009 04:02 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by MS3FGX (Post 3598913)
No...

While there is an ARM port of Slackware (actually, a few, I think), it isn't designed to be installed onto PDAs and certainly not phones. You need a lot of custom work to get Linux running on hardware like that. The only phone/PDA platform you could feasibly run ARM Slackware on would be one of the phones from OpenMoko, because all of the information and tools are publicly available and there is a community behind it. You might be able to do it on a HTC G1 too, I believe you can install ARM Debian on that, so Slackware should be workable too.
thanks for infos. are there any howtos about installing linux on those?
just to get a sense.

thanks


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