LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive
LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive
Posted Sep 15, 2014 19:22 UTC (Mon) by TimSmall (guest, #96681)In reply to: LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive by rahvin
Parent article: LuneOS tries to keep webOS alive
IMO, probably they should be thanking Russell King as much:
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/docs/history.php
... this was all done in 1995, in his spare time whilst he did his undergraduate degree. To give some context to that, the A5000 which he targeted launched with a spec of a 25MHz ARM2 and 1/2/4MB RAM and either a 40MB hard disk, or no-hard-disk (floppy disk as the only storage).
Incidentally, Russell was a terrible person to have in your high school computer club - he was very knowledgeable and helpful, but he set the bar so high that I nearly took an entirely different career path...
When I found out a few years later that he'd ported Linux to the ARM essentially single-handedly, I felt a lot better.
