Installing linux on a hard drive never sounded impressive before.

cupcake-unicorn · on Aug 2, 2013

Well, to be fair, it's a bit of a pain with UEFI.

But this is really amazing. I'd love to see how it could be extended to other OSes, if possible?

McGlockenshire · on Aug 2, 2013

I'm not sure about the other controllers, but if this one has a Cortex M3, then anything that runs on an M3 could hypothetically be ported.

One of the SE sites assembled a list. Shockingly, the question isn't closed yet!

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/27594/what-op...

0x0 · on Aug 2, 2013

The Feroceon CPUs are pretty hefty too. They're powering the Marvell Kirkwood platform which is used in things like the Sheevaplug and some of the QNAP TS-* NAS devices. Debian runs great on those. (2.0ghz CPU, 512mb ram). Probably the biggest trouble here is the lack of an MMU (?) .

mcpherrinm · on Aug 2, 2013

uclinux can run on mmu-less systems, so I do suspect you can run Linux on this hard drive.