An interesting slashdot comment[0] about running directly on the Crusoe: > The article makes it pretty clear why Linux can't run directly on the Crusoe: Linux

An interesting slashdot comment[0] about running directly on the Crusoe: > The article makes it pretty clear why Linux can't run directly on the Crusoe: Linux expects the hardware to have a virtual memory manager, which the Crusoe doesn't have. Consequently, any port of Linux will need to be running on an emulated memory manager. As a side note, the Crusoe is also missing native support for certain other helpful features: Memory protection -- without that, a segfault can take out the entire OS. Running code from user memory -- without this, any application code will need to be piped through the OS to the CPU. [0] https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96231&cid=8242299 https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96231&cid=82...