[Gumstix-users] Re: Other Operating Systems?

[Athanasios A. <th...@at...>]

Tom Lee Mullins wrote:
> Athanasios Anastasiou wrote:
>
>> Hello Tom
>>
>> There has been a succesful Windows CE trial on the gumstix. You can 
>> find it by searching the mailing list archive.
>>
>> Apart from that, i guess that no one stops people from getting the 
>> code of another OS and tailoring it to the underlying architecture.
>>
>> Personaly, i would love to see an Open BeOS (a.k.a Haiku) running on 
>> the gumstix.
>>
>> All the best
>> Athanasios Anastasiou
>>
> Thanks for the information. I had heard of an open source small clone 
> of WinNT operating system called ReactOS (the entire os can fit on a 
> single mini-cdr).
> http://www.reactos.org  Would something like this work on a Gumstix 
> Waysmallpc?
>
Hello Tom

Thanks for your email.

I have seen ReactOS before.

You could try and compile the code for the ARM CPUs but any hard-coded 
part that is made specifically for the x86 architecture will fail. I am 
sure that if you have the time to go through the source code and adapt 
it suitably, the OS will eventually boot on the gumstix.

It would be an excellent educational experience to port another OS to 
the gumstix (and indeed any other platform) but if you just want to 
program it for an application, why bother changing the OS?


Hope this helps
Athanasios Anastasiou