"Taking Linux and installing it on an alternative hardware platform may not be easy, but you can learn a lot from the experience.
"When Linus Torvalds first started writing the code that would become Linux, he did so on an Intel 386. Ever since, the x86 platform--which includes processors such as the Intel Pentium and AMD Athlon--has been the foundation for Linux development. But just as Windows isn't the only OS, x86 is not the only hardware platform, and Linux currently supports around twenty hardware architectures, and many more sub-architectures..."
