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title: "It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-linux-on-a-sega-megadrive-2dbyxcwkr
source_url: https://hackaday.com/2026/06/29/its-linux-on-a-sega-megadrive
type: article
source: "Hackaday"
published: 2026-06-29T08:31:11.653Z
updated: 2026-06-29T08:31:28.364Z
tags: ["linux", "embedded"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive

**[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

LinuxMD is a project that runs a mainline Linux kernel on the Sega Megadrive (Genesis), a 16-bit console from 1990 powered by a Motorola 68000 CPU. Since the 68000 lacks a memory management unit, the kernel is compiled with the -nommu option. The system boots from an SD card via a modern storage peripheral and reportedly runs on original hardware, with smolutils (a minimal coreutils) as the userspace. It's a technical curiosity that pushes both the console and the Linux kernel to their limits.

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