There probably aren't a lot of practical reasons to do this.  But 
sometimes we geeks just do things because its cool.  :-)

-Kent

On 6 Apr 2001, at 0:08, Matt Wehland wrote:

> Well I've watched this thread for a couple of days and hoped someone
> else would find the right answer (I didn't feel like digging).  I knew
> I had seen something about this on my local Linux user group list
> several months ago.  Unfortunately I couldn't find it in my mail
> archives, bookmarks, general web searches or elsewhere.  After asking
> my local LUG for help and then some more searching, here is the link
> to the uclinux-cisco project (uclinux is a project for running linux
> on embedded system, uclinux-cisco is a port to the cisco platform,
> 2500 series mostly) There is source (~56MG) and several percompiled
> binaries.
>    http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/
> Neat idea, and I do want to play with some of the precompiles kernels,
> but I really have to ask myself, WHY?
> 
> What is the problem being solved by running linux on such an expensive
> (for what you get) platform?
> 
> Any ideas, the web site seemed lacking in this kind of info.
> 
> Oh well, some of the most enjoyable things are done just for the hell
> of it.
> 
> Matt Wehland
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