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elks
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Damn Small Linux 2024
ELKS supported MMU-less operation on 8088 and 80286 machines, but I don't think an ARM port exists: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks
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SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC
Roughly in the mid-90s I bought at a local surplus store a "Carry 1" industrial 8088 computer which to my surprise I later discovered it could run Linux (ELKS: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks). I ultimately sold it on Ebay because although it was a beautiful piece of old tech, I was struggling to find more space for other things.
Here's one. I had only the central unit, mine had two floppy drives.
- ELKS Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset β Linux for 8086
- ELKS 0.70 released: Linux for the 8086
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My Happy HP 95LX is my everyday computer.
I don't think you can replace the OS on these. Unless there is a way to boot them from DOS, but you are looking at 8c086 machine so the choice is limited. Linux or BSD won't work. But ELKS might if it can be made to boot from DOS. Minix 2.02 seems to work.
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$5 Ai-M62-12F-Kit RISC-V development board features BL616 WiFi 6, BLE 5.2, and Zigbee MCU, plenty of I/Os - CNX Software
Yet ELKS works on 16 bit computers with 640k of RAM.
- ELKS: Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
- Past meets present in this $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
- Imaging an MFM Hard Disk on a PC XT
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Furby 1998 Source Code
Some small size Linux-like OSes do exist though: one commenter suggested Lunix (which I didn't know, thanks for the link), and a slightly bigger one is ELKS which runs on old MMU-less x86 CPUs. I managed to run it on a 8088 industrial PC ages ago.
https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
I should have a Furby buried somewhere; now that I think of it, it may be the right platform to stick a bigger brain into, make it wireless so that it could be connected to the home IoT network then signal events or alerts.
rpi-clone
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Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
I've been running a bunch of Pi's for years now, and the biggest problem I've had is the Pi itself dying: 24/7 usage is hard on a small device. I've also found that stable power is essential, and to that end I've always used 5v 3a branded power cubes, plugged into a pure sine wave UPS. Choice of micro-SDHC cards is important and I ended up getting ATP industrial cards (https://www.atpinc.com/products/industrial-sd-cards) - expensive but really long-lived. Finally, using RPi-clone (https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone) on a regular basis has been a life-saver. I clone to Sandisk Extreme micro-SDHCs and can recover from an outage in minutes.
- Cloning SD card in CLI to use in another pi question.
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Boot Pi4 from an SSD, not the MicroSD card
I would normally use the Pi SD-Card copier to duplicate the SD-Card to an SSD but I'm unsure if this is available on the Ubuntu image - you could possibly use this program [Github] if you are not keen on using dd with a running system.
- DIY Raspberry / Orange Pi NAS That Looks Like a NAS β 2023 Edition
- 2022 Oct 31 π Stickied π ΅π °π & ππππππππ thread - Boot problems? Power supply problems? Display problems? Networking problems? Need ideas? Get help with these and other questions! π¨πΊπ² π―π¬πΉπ¬ ππ°πΉπΊπ»
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Help needed on setting up Pi to boot from SSD
Then you will need to clone the SD to the SSD, you can use many tools that are available from your desktop computer or you can try with rpi-clone, just connect the SSD with Pi booted from SD, stop any possible service/docker to prevent any copy error and run, adapting device naming but usually will be (check device with dmesg):
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Help needed on setting up Pi to boot from SSD..
I used rpi-clone, it was super easy. Whole process took 10 minutes. https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone
- I wish I wouldβve switched to SSD Boot years ago
- Is it possible to convert an bootable sd to a bootable usb-ssd?
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Finished my very own Smart Mirror!
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What are some alternatives?
IoTGoat - IoTGoat is a deliberately insecure firmware created to educate software developers and security professionals with testing commonly found vulnerabilities in IoT devices.
TimeShift - System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.
gcc-ia16 - Fork of Lambertsen & Jenner (& al.)'s IA-16 (Intel 16-bit x86) port of GNU compilers β added far pointers & more β’ use https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16 to build β’ Ubuntu binaries at https://launchpad.net/%7Etkchia/+archive/ubuntu/build-ia16/ β’ DJGPP/MS-DOS binaries at https://gitlab.com/tkchia/build-ia16/-/releases β’ mirror of https://gitlab.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16
DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!
FUZIX - FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
ao486_MiSTer - ao486 port for MiSTer
PiShrink-to-Crontab - Raspberry; PiShrink to Crontab
libudev-zero - Daemonless replacement for libudev
Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
linux-uwu - An optimized kernel based on the Debian Linux sources with graysky2's gcc optimization patch, Gabriel Krisman's fsync patch, and some Clear Linux patches layered on top
log2ram - ramlog like for systemd (Put log into a ram folder)