Running on a 8-bit RISC microcontroller.
A programmer managed to run Ubuntu on a 8-bit RISC @ 6.5KHz, with only 16KB of SRAM and 128KB of flash storage...
Programmer Dmitry Grinberg managed to run Ubuntu on an 8-bit micro. Linux minimum system requirements are 32-bit machine with 1MB of RAM, so surely this is the world's slowest Linux computer... by far.
He had to write an ARM emulator so that the system appeared as having a 32-bit processor with an MMU and, according to him, it took four hours to boot the system, but the command line was completely usable, typically responding "within a minute".
Check out the video below, to see how he tests it, and of course his webpage for complete details on how he managed to build this thing!
OFFICIAL SITE: http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07. Linux on 8bit
NEWS SOURCE: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/01/worlds-slowest-linux-computer/
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