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by coupdejarnac 22 days ago
Surely I must have seen someone do this already on Slashdot like 25 years ago. Cheers for using a recent kernel though, that's neat.
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Hi! Thanks! Though' I must say that it also helped lots that there's still m68k (Heck, even base 68000) arch code on upstream Linux...!
“Modern Linux on the Atari Jaguar” is not a headline I expected. Thank you for making it real.

Can it do 80 columns though?

Anytime!

As for 80 columns... I'd probably need to choose a different (Narrower) font. With a bit smaller font I reckon it should be feasible to have it (Since current one has 8x8 glyphs).

Can the Jaguar push a higher horizontal resolution? Does it use graphics hardware similar to the Atari ST family?
Completely different. The ST and TT used bitplanes whereas the Jag is chunky, and can support both YUV and RGB colourspaces. 640x200 is possible at least https://youtu.be/XI3Pvx5Yh1U?si=2bp93CeNYPTGZZic
640x200 pixels ought to be enough for anyone.