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From: Alex Stubbins on 2 Apr 2010 23:41
I want to be able to create Linux on a nice piece of hardware some day.
From: philo on 3 Apr 2010 08:11
Alex Stubbins wrote:
> I want to be able to create Linux on a nice piece of hardware some day.



Don't put off

do it today!
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 3 Apr 2010 11:05
On Apr 2, 11:41 pm, Alex Stubbins <darklinkx...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to be able to create Linux on a nice piece of hardware some day.

That's nice. Maybe you could give us a hint as to the actual types of
hardware? If it's an i686 compatible, or better yet an x86_64
compatible system, you can certainly build software packages for any
OS you can set up a copy for and chroot to. In most cases, you can
modify a kernel slightly and rebuild it on similar hardware with with
a similar OS with no surprises.

But if you want to build a ppc kernel and have only x86_64 hardware,
you have to build a big toolchain of a compatible libc, a compatible
cross-compiler, etc. Don't do it if you don't have to, it's one heck
of a lot of work.
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