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turbowafflz ,

Looks very similar to the Windows CE device action retro has in this video so what he used could be helpful m.youtube.com/watch?v=anz17CNMixU

pescetarian ,
@pescetarian@lemmy.ml avatar

www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/

pescetarian ,
@pescetarian@lemmy.ml avatar

Alpine Linux if ARM7 but it is older arm i think

DieserTypMatthias ,
@DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml avatar

Well of course you can.

notthebees ,

Probably

groups.google.com/g/…/L1Q6OHDGDcM

archive.org/details/wm8650-linux

shasta ,

No, you’re not allowed. Now go to your room and think about what you’ve done.

ratzki , (edited )

*what you have NOT done.

Fixed that for you 😉

possiblylinux127 ,

This device should be able to run Linux fine of the specs you provided are correct. You can either use CLI or a Light weight Window manager like IceWM. Web browsing and video playback are out of the question but it most certainly can run vim.

I would just install Debian. It is likely a 32bit machine.

archy ,

Looks like you already did

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Surely its easier to install Linux than android.

I want to know how they put android on it

meekah ,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, the internals might just be the ones of a tablet or something. With android I’d be guessing its an ARM chip

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

Wut. This thing is like a decade old at least. Did we use ARM back then?

meekah ,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

ARM chips were common in phones, even 10 years ago. But after doing a bit of research, there seems to be an unofficial open source version of android made to run on x86. Might be that this thing is running that. No idea, really

SuitedUpDev ,
@SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl avatar

Yes you can, it won’t be great though.

I used to maintain a Linux distribution called “OpenWM8650” (back in 2011 / 2012) which was specially aimed at the WM8650 and WM8505. It would run off the SD card. Which wasn’t great, but the flash onboard support was horrible at best.

Maybe you can find some old information on it, on XDA because the website for the initial distribution is long gone.

notthebees ,

archive.org/details/wm8650-linuxIt might have been archived here.

Deconceptualist ,

Most likely yes, as many others have said. Of course you’ll likely have to pick a very lightweight DE.

As a fallback there is always NetBSD.

possiblylinux127 ,

NetBSD will not work at all with Broadcom Wireless

Deconceptualist ,

I mean if you’re down to NetBSD as your pick you’ve probably already made some concessions so plugging into Ethernet isn’t a huge leap at that point.

possiblylinux127 ,

Broadcom makes the wifi

IzyaKatzmann ,

It’s beautiful, pls post an update and ping if you manage it!

thegreekgeek ,
@thegreekgeek@midwest.social avatar

It should! As long as you can get it to the bios screen you should be able to get it to boot a live USB. I actually resurrected my EeePC1005 two weeks ago with DamnSmallLinux2024.

skullgiver ,
@skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

The nice thing is that it already runs Linux. The less nice thing is that it’s running some ancient Linux 2.6 kernel with Android on top of it.

It should be doable to install Linux in some form or another onto it, but it won’t be easy like installing Linux on a PC.

GustavoM ,
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

Even a potato can run linux if you try hard(er) enough.

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

a potato?

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