Elks Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to elks
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gcc-ia16
Fork of Lambertsen & Jenner (& al.)'s IA-16 (Intel 16-bit x86) port of GNU compilers ― added far pointers & more • use https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16 to build • Ubuntu binaries at https://launchpad.net/%7Etkchia/+archive/ubuntu/build-ia16/ • DJGPP/MS-DOS binaries at https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16/releases • source mirror at https://gitlab.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16
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XTulator
XTulator is a portable, open source x86 PC emulator currently supporting the 8086 instruction set and 80186 extensions.
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libi86
Attempt to reimplement non-standard C library facilities (e.g. <conio.h>) used in MS-DOS programs, for IA-16 GCC & ACK ― mirror of https://gitlab.com/tkchia/libi86 • Ubuntu packages for cross-compilation at https://launchpad.net/%7Etkchia/+archive/ubuntu/build-ia16/ • DJGPP/MS-DOS binaries at https://github.com/tkchia/libi86/releases
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Scout APM
Scout APM: A developer's best friend. Try free for 14-days. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.
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Reviews and mentions
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You can only take 1 terabyte of data into a total societal collapse. What do you save?
From https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
- Linux (ELKS) running on an IBM PC XT replica
- Installing Linux into a 286 laptop from the year 1989
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Floppinux - An Embedded 🐧Linux on a Single 💾Floppy
ELKS.
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Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy
That's awesome. I recently ran [ELKS](https://github.com/jbruchon/elks) (Embedded Linux Kernel Subset) on a Toshiba T1200 laptop from 1987 with an 8086 processor. Booting into a unix-like system from a floppy with recently developed software is just surreal.
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Why use old computers and operating systems?
Years ago I successfully run Debian + LXDE desktop on one of those toy Win-CE Chinese laptops with just 128MB RAM. CPU was a WM8505 clocked at a whopping 300MHz. And then there's ELKS Linux which would work on 8086 CPUs too which I successfully run on a industrial PC many moons ago. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
Extremely small systems aside, it can run fine on decently equipped laptops or netbooks. Surfing the web with a full featured browser such as Firefox or using heavy apps such as LibreOffice without having the system swap too much would likely require no less than 2 Gigs or more, but if you do network maintenance using command line tools, even the smallest netbook with half a Gig RAM becomes an useful tool to keep in the bag along with bigger laptops.
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jbruchon/elks is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
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