$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB

Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by Kerrick on Thursday December 27, 2012 @11:01PM (#4976369)

I've been thinking of building Linux From Scratch [1] as an effort to better understand the workings of GNU/Linux. Would this be a good machine to build it on? It certainly seems to fit the bill!

[1]: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by asdfs on Thursday December 27, 2012 @11:20PM (#4976411)

I'd do LFS in a VM first. If you try doing it on one of these devices, then either you're cross-compiling (which can be somewhat finicky), or you're compiling on this device (which will be slow).

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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by wtracy on Friday December 28, 2012 @12:40AM (#4976607)

I would try it on an x86 device first, just to get your feet wet. There's enough ways to trip yourself up with LFS without trying to do it on unusual hardware.

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