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Well linux we know will work... with WiFi bluetooth USB and the SGX

but what else will run ? so I am starting a list.

QNX (pretty tiny featureful RTOS..3530 not currently supported being considered... lets go poke them LOL) http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPa...owDetails=false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hills_Software << their OSs are probably compatible (just out about them might be intresting they claim royalty free binary distribution of the OSs and resonable prices on source)

embedded versions of windows (who cares.....)

Symbian

Palm

So one question i have is as developers what which of these alternatives OSs interest you most?
 
NetBSD !!!! (Of course it runs NetBSD :p )

Since FreeBSD is supporting arm, maybe a Pandora port is possible ?
 
atomicthumbs said:
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Alternative OSS on the Pandora
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You could try ALSA. :D

Yeah, thought that too before reading on :lol:
 
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RiscOs does run on modern ARMs (with 32-bit program counter). As far as I know it's still a commercial OS though, so if someone did port it you'd likely have to buy a copy.

RiscOS on the Pandora would be very cool, though. B)

My other nomination would be Haiku (a Beos-alike), but I don't think that even runs on the ARM yet, never mind runs on a Pandora.
 
ReactOS

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ARM Port

The development team has always intended to port ReactOS to different architectures. While Art Yerkes has long worked on a PowerPC port, a series of commits have prepared ROS to run on the ARM processor. ARM is a RISC processor and the most popular design for embedded use, though there does exist a few specialized workstations. Having ReactOS run on ARM would present many interesting possibilities, including turning ROS into a mobile OS solution.



Source:
http://www.reactos.org/en/newsletter_37.html#sec4
 
i guess the best option right now would be the Rox desktop on linux.. but im gettin off topic aren't I but i guess i can do that being the OP X.x
 
Umm...considering ReactOS's binary compatibility with Windows, wouldn't a port potentially mean playable Diablo 2, Starcraft and Warcraft?
 
CyruzDraxs said:
Umm...considering ReactOS's binary compatibility with Windows, wouldn't a port potentially mean playable Diablo 2, Starcraft and Warcraft?
No. Windows software is compiled (and sometimes specifically made) for x86. Even with a an ARM ReactOS port and with complete binary compatibility, it would be impossible without cooperation from the original developer(s), in which case winelib would be better suited.
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Of course not. But cooperation from someone with the source code would make reactos largely unnecessary.
 
'Firefox' said:
RiscOs does run on modern ARMs (with 32-bit program counter). As far as I know it's still a commercial OS though, so if someone did port it you'd likely have to buy a copy.

RiscOS on the Pandora would be very cool, though. B)

My other nomination would be Haiku (a Beos-alike), but I don't think that even runs on the ARM yet, never mind runs on a Pandora.
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It looks like Jeffrey Lee is working on a OpenRiscOS Port albeit he currently only gets some support for the BeagleBoard as he doesn't have access to a Pandora Dev-Board or anything (is using QEMU for current tests).

Is there someone who could help him a bit with this?

Holger
 
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AROS might be a possibility sometime in the future (i.MX515 is ARM Cortex-A8 based like the OMAP3 in the Pandora):
CODE
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=12039#12039

For those who don't know AROS is an open source Amiga-like OS based around Workbench/AmigaOS 3.1 but with many new features. Development has been picking up speed recently. These are the main forums for the OS:
CODE
http://aros-exec.org/

This is the main distro:
CODE
http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/

Example screenshot:
CODE
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_73lLV6srqwY/SSgqCjBVz2I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/30KyxDN-cHo/s1600-h/kensicons_complete.PNG
 
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I'm not sure how much of a future aros has... it seems some of its developer have started anubis

CODE
http://www.osnews.com/story/20516/Former_AROS_Developers_Start_New_OS_Project_Much_Secrecy



Haiku has more potential... and there are developers interesting in ARM/Beagleboard

http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-development/ARM-Port

An arm port is also mentioned here

http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2009-...dem_2009_report


and here search for "arm"


http://echelog.matzon.dk/logs/browse/haiku/1231628400

google shows there is a reasonable ammount of noise about an arm port of Haiku


http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-6...&q=arm+port
 
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Forth. There's been some talk of a native ARM port of retroforth but I'm not sure of it's status. It's something I'll be playing with anyways.
 
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