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Old 07-06-2009, 03:47 PM   #1
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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?

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Old 07-06-2009, 03:54 PM   #2
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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.

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Old 07-06-2009, 04:02 PM   #3
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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.

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