Linux for the Sega MegaDrive

https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd

54•HardwareLust•14h ago

https://hackaday.com/2026/06/29/its-linux-on-a-sega-megadriv...

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HardwareLust•14h ago

Original title: It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive

msephton•12h ago

Really odd decision for it to be changed away from this original title.

And if I'm being pedantic (and I am) it's Sega Mega Drive.

Repo, which says Sega MegaDrive, is at: https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd

dormento•10h ago

(Disclaimer: I'm partial to "Mega Drive" myself.)

Wikipedia has this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mega_Drive_vs_Genesis.gif

blue = Mega Drive, red = Genesis

Linked here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Vid...

(didn't find the sales numbers, for those wondering. Sorry!)

croes•58m ago

I guess parent is pedantic about Megadrive instead of Mega Drive

nommuenjoyer•8h ago

And it really is on a MegaDrive as I only tested this stuff on a Japanese MegaDrive.

dang•1h ago

It's a cool project! but best to use the original title and original source - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I've changed the title and URL to match https://github.com/LinuxMD/linuxmd and put the other URL in the toptext so people can look at it too.

bitwize•34m ago

Absolutely nuts and squirrels.

Then again, I did know that the Mega Drive's CPU loadout (68000 and Z80) is the same as the first Unix machine I ever used (a TRS-80 Model 16), so running some form of Unix on it was therefore, theoretically, possible...

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