{"id":287046,"date":"2026-07-08T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/someone-made-use-of-linuxs-68000-cpu-compatibility-by-running-it-off-an-atari-jaguar\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:25:09","slug":"someone-made-use-of-linuxs-68000-cpu-compatibility-by-running-it-off-an-atari-jaguar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/someone-made-use-of-linuxs-68000-cpu-compatibility-by-running-it-off-an-atari-jaguar\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone made use of Linux&#8217;s 68000 CPU compatibility by running it off an Atari Jaguar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-made-use-of-linuxs-68000-cpu-compatibility-by-running-it-off-an-atari-jaguar\/\">Someone made use of Linux&#8217;s 68000 CPU compatibility by running it off an Atari Jaguar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-made-use-of-linuxs-68000-cpu-compatibility-by-running-it-off-an-atari-jaguar\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-made-use-of-linuxs-68000-cpu-compatibility-by-running-it-off-an-atari-jaguar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-08 02:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Linux retains m68k (Motorola 68000) support, enabling OS builds for consoles like the Atari Jaguar.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        With tinkering, Linux can boot on an Atari Jaguar, though the setup is a little tough.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Keeping legacy drivers matters &#8211; instructions and code are on GitHub if you want to try it yourself.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Linux kernel is one of those weird things where you didn&#8217;t know what kind of hardware it supported until said support was removed. For example, I didn&#8217;t know that the kernel supported the i386 processor until Linux 7.1 removed it.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Linux kernel does still support the Motorola 68000 range of processors, which means you can still run it on some really cool hardware. For instance, it&#8217;s entirely possible to get Linux installed on an Atari Jaguar.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"getting-linux-on-atari-jaguar-is-shockingly-possible\">\n                        Getting Linux on Atari Jaguar is shockingly possible<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"and-it-39-s-all-thanks-to-the-legacy-compatibility\">\n            And it&#8217;s all thanks to the legacy compatibility<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0cakehonolulu<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by Hackaday, Cakehonolulu showed off how they managed to get Linux running off an Atari Jaguar over on their blog. Cakehonolulu starts by introducing the Atari Jaguar, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/someone-made-use-of-linuxs-68000-cpu-compatibility-by-running-it-off-an-atari-jaguar\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone made use of Linux&#8217;s 68000 CPU compatibility by running it off an Atari Jaguar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/atari-jaguar-and-games_source-flickr-michel-ngilen.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-287046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287048,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287046\/revisions\/287048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}