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Ports of Linux*

"It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(."

- Linus Benedict Torvalds(torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI), 1991-08-25 23:12:08 PST -

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x86-64 , AMD (and Intel) 64-bit extension to the classical 32-bit x86 architecture.
PenguinPPC , native port to the 32 and 64 bit PowerPC processor.
- GameCube Linux , port to Nintendo GameCube.
Linux390 , port to IBM S/390 and zSeries Mainframe Architectures.
Itanium , HP/Intel IA-64 architecture.
Linux/Alpha , port to HP/Compaq/DEC Alpha microprocessor.
UltraLinux , port to 32bit SPARC and 64bit UltraSPARC microprocessor and clones.
PA-RISC Linux , native port of Linux to the Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture Family (PA-RISC).
ARM Linux , port to XScale, StrongARM and ARM microprocessors.
Linux/m68k , Motorola 68000 series.
Linux/MIPS , port to MIPS Processor.
CRIS , port to ETRAX Asix chip.
LinuxSH , SuperH and SH-Mobile family of processors.
Linux/M32R , 32-bit RISC processor of Renesas Technology.
FR-V , port to Fujitsu FR-V Family.
uclinux , port of Linux to several CPUs without a Memory Management Unit (MMU).
VAXlinux , port to HP/Compaq/DEC VAX architecture.
NUMA , support for NUMA Hardware.
ELKS-The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset , Linux for 8086 to 80286 class PC's.
Special PCs and Near PCs:
- MCA Linux , Micro Channel workstation bus.
- Xbox-Linux , port to Microsoft Xbox.
- Linux/98 , NEC PC-9800 architecture has the intel architecture mpu, but is different from IBM PC.
Linux for small things:
- Embedded Linux Consortium
- Japan Embedded Linux Consortium
- CE Linux Forum
- LinuxDevices
- Handhelds.org
- uCdot
- VMELinux
Clustering and HA
- Beowulf , parallel Linux cluster.
- OPENMOSIX , scalable cluster computing with process migration.
- SCORE , high performance cluster environment without using the TCP/IP protocol stack.
- Cplant , large-scale and massively parallel cluster.
- Ultra Monkey , load sharing and balancing cluster.
- Red Hat Cluster Suite , load sharing, balancing and High-Availability cluster.
- FailSafe , High-Availability cluster.
- Kimberlite , High-Availability cluster.
- Linux/AP+ , porting Linux to the AP1000+ and to add appropriate multi-processor extensions to support parallel programs.
- Cluster Infrastructure(CI) , common infrastructure for Linux clustering by extending the Cluster Membership and Internode Communication Subsystems from HP's NonStop Clusters for Unixware code base.
- OpenSSI , provide a full, highly available Single Sistem Image environment.
- DLM , Distributed Lock Manager provides an implementation of locking mode semantics modeled after the VAX Cluster locking semantics for a Linux cluster.
Microkernel:
- mklinux , port to run Linux over a Mach microkernel at x86, HP PARISC and Apple PowerMac.
- DROPS , The Dresden Real Time Operation Systems Project use monolithic Linux server on top of the microkernel.
- L4Linux , port to the L4 µ-kernel.
- Fiasco µ-kernel , a new µ-kernel running on x86 PCs intended to be compatible with the L4 µ-kernel for x86. ; it services standard Linux applications.
RealTime
- KURT , a firm real-time Linux.
- RTLinux , a hard real-time operating system.
- RTAI || RTAI , is a set of modules based on a minimal LINUX kernel change that implements a Real Time Hardware Abstraction Layer (RTHAL) onto which a Real Time Application Interface (RTAI) is built.
- Linux-SRT
- QLinux , enhanced Kernel for Multimedia Computing.
Virtual kernel:
- Xen , a virtual machine monitor (VMM) for x86-compatible computers. Xen can securely execute multiple virtual machines, each running its own OS, on a single physical system with close-to-native performance.
- VServer , Linux kernel-based virtual servers running on a single piece of hardware.
- adeos || adeos , the purpose of Adeos is to provide a flexible environment for sharing hardware resources among multiple operating systems, or among multiple instances of a single OS.
- User-mode Linux , is a port of the Linux kernel to its own system call interface. It runs in a set of processes, resulting in a user-mode virtual machine.
- Linux/a386 , port of Linux to the a386 architecture, which is a virtual machine C library. This means that Linux/a386 runs as a normal Unix process.
Security-Enhanced Linux , NSA port to a new security level. Low or high ? ;-)

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