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Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086

27 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 8 stories, 19 comments · first 2016-02-23 · latest 2026-08-18

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  1. …there are fuzix and elks running on 8085 or 8086 respectively: https://www.fuzix.org/downloads/0.4/ https://github.com/ghaerr/elks
    comment by fsiefken · 2026-08-18 · in The Road to MS-DOS 2.0
  2. …Edit: to answer my own question it seems the recent branch dropped 286 protected mode support https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/pull/235
    comment by retrac · 2026-04-19 · in Fuzix OS
  3. …have answered your question.. [1] 0 - https://www.langelaar.net/jnos2/documents/about.html 1 - https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/releases
    comment by cricalix · 2025-01-05 · in ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
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    ELKS: Linux for 16-bit Intel Processors
    story by emersonrsantos · 2025-01-04 · 114 comments
  5. ELKS supported MMU-less operation on 8088 and 80286 machines, but I don't think an ARM port exists: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks
    comment by rzzzt · 2024-02-01 · in Damn Small Linux 2024
  6. …1" industrial 8088 computer which to my surprise I later discovered it could run Linux (ELKS: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks ). I ultimately sold it on Ebay because although it was a beautiful piece of old tech, I was struggling to find…
    comment by squarefoot · 2023-11-27 · in SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC
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    ELKS Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset – Linux for 8086
    story by LispSporks22 · 2023-10-10 · 0 comments
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    ELKS 0.70 released: Linux for the 8086
    story by lproven · 2023-09-08 · 0 comments
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    ELKS: Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
    story by ingve · 2023-05-22 · 1 comment
  10. It might run ELKS https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
    comment by Andys · 2023-05-20 · in A $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
  11. …is ELKS which runs on old MMU-less x86 CPUs. I managed to run it on a 8088 industrial PC ages ago. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks I should have a Furby buried somewhere; now that I think of it, it may be the right platform to stick a…
    comment by squarefoot · 2023-01-09 · in Furby source code (1998)
  12. I successfully run ELKS on a Flytech Carry 1 industrial computer. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks http://elks.sourceforge.net/ (old Sourceforge page) https://vinc.prv.pl/text/299e3ed5-320.html
    comment by squarefoot · 2022-08-12 · in A Tale of Running Modern Linux on Hardware from 1997
  13. I've built an 8088 replica (Sergey's Xi 8088) and I'm having great fun with ELKS. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks ELKS is a Linux subset designed for the 8088, along with a complete toolchain (gcc-ia16). It's also actively maintained and…
    comment by rahen · 2022-05-25 · in 8088 PC XT Compatible Logic Board
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    Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset: Linux-like OS for systems like 8086
    story by stevefan1999 · 2022-01-11 · 1 comment
  15. This title is sort of clickbait. I was expecting to see something about ELKS[0]. [0] https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
    comment by ronsor · 2021-07-01 · in Installing Linux into a 286 laptop from the year 1989
  16. That's awesome. I recently ran [ELKS]( https://github.com/jbruchon/elks ) (Embedded Linux Kernel Subset) on a Toshiba T1200 laptop from 1987 with an 8086 processor. Booting into a unix-like system from a floppy with recently developed…
    comment by raflemakt · 2021-05-22 · in Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy
  17. …Linux which would work on 8086 CPUs too which I successfully run on a industrial PC many moons ago. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks Extremely small systems aside, it can run fine on decently equipped laptops or netbooks. Surfing the web…
    comment by squarefoot · 2021-03-20 · in Why use old computers and operating systems?
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    ELKS v0.4.0
    story by todsacerdoti · 2020-11-29 · 0 comments
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    ELKS: Linux-like OS for 8086 family
    story by snvzz · 2020-04-24 · 0 comments
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    ELKS – Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
    story by asicsp · 2020-04-21 · 0 comments
  21. …Linux on 16-bit x86 chips and other MMU-less CPUs. It's called ELKS and it was never very active.) https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
    comment by msla · 2020-01-27 · in Linux 5.5 to Offer Mainline Support for SGI's Octane MIPS Workstations
  22. …it seemed abandoned. But development has started again in 2014, and still seems ongoing: https://github.com/jbruchon/elks Should play with it some time, maybe in an 8086 emulator. EDIT: By the way: I forgot to mention this in my other…
    comment by anyfoo · 2018-12-05 · in PC/GEOS
  23. A shrunk version of Linux can run on 8088 CPUs too. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks But the problem here isn't to put this or that OS in place of Minix but rather to get rid of that completely for good. Different licensing also wouldn't…
    comment by squarefoot · 2017-11-07 · in MINIX: ​Intel's hidden in-chip operating system
  24. …late 90s. At one point Alan Cox[3] was an active contributor. [1] http://elks.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://github.com/jbruchon/elks [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox
    comment by pacaro · 2017-06-15 · in Z-Berry: Z-80 computer
  25. 8086 Linux still exists; people are working on it: https://github.com/jbruchon/elks But it's still pretty unstable. If you have a spare 8086 and want a Unixoid, go look up Minix 2 (not 3). It's not very comfortable on a 8086 with 640kB,…
    comment by david-given · 2016-10-08 · in History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Operating System
  26. …would fork itself up to 4 times in order to address enough memory to decompress certain *.Z files: https://github.com/jbruchon/elks/blob/master/elkscmd/minix1/...
    comment by rwmj · 2016-08-31 · in Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
  27. …would be nice as well, you would get the ultimate speedy portable unix ecosystem in the browser. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
    comment by fsiefken · 2016-02-23 · in Show HN: Windows 98 in browser