NetBSD 9.1
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NetBSD 9.1
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Re: NetBSD 9.1
#2Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?
Re: NetBSD 9.1
#3Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?
Funny you should ask that - after reading the above release info, I went down a rabbit hole looking at the m68k release and seeing if there was more Amiga info - I found a short youtube of a guy booting NetBSD on his Amiga, but nothing major beyond that. Looks like you need a full 68k CPU (not an EC version) and a lot of ram - which most stock Amigas don't have. I'd love to give it a go tho - I've got the hardware.
Re: NetBSD 9.1
#4Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?
Not on an Amiga but I do run it on a Macintosh.
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Re: NetBSD 9.1
#6Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?
In my experience the 68k branches tend to be pretty far behind in packages on the repositories. So, you'd be forced to compile a lot of stuff yourself to get much mileage. Given that you're already running the PC equivalent of a rusted out CJ-7, maybe that's just fine.
I keep meaning to help with the pkg repositories. Some part of me thinks it would be relaxing.
Re: NetBSD 9.1
#7Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?
I used to have a Apple Centris 610 that ran NetBSD/mac68k. I got it as a side-effect of some horse-trading in the late '90s/early 2000s and I wanted another UNIX box to play with, so it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time. It was a 68LC040 model so I couldn't do A/UX on it without a CPU swap, and IIRC neither Linux/m68k nor mkLinux supported the hardware at the time, making NetBSD the only practical choice without spending money. It was a quirky little machine, and I destroyed it repeatedly trying things, but that means it did its job well.
I was recently working out using NetBSD 5.1 (..the last version that could be booted to a usable shell from only two floppies) to image the hard drive of an old Pre-USB laptop I picked up for a dumb retrocomputing project.
(The beginning of that project burbled up on HN a few months ago: A ThinkPad 560E because I want a fully supported period-correct machine to run OpenStep/Rhapsody on. I'm backing up the original Windows95 install by DDing the drive to a virtual SCSI disc on a SCSI2SD, plugged in to an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460D PCMCIA SCSI Adapter. Both because getting the HD out of a 560 chassis is a pain, and because I set myself a "don't physically open the machine" conduct challenge for sport).
Having a tiny, absolutely consistent little UNIX that can just do things like the above because it supports a staggering array of hardware is really pretty delightful.
Re: NetBSD 9.1
#8Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?
In my experience the 68k branches tend to be pretty far behind in packages on the repositories. So, you'd be forced to compile a lot of stuff yourself to get much mileage. Given that you're already running the PC equivalent of a rusted out CJ-7, maybe that's just fine. I keep meaning to help with the pkg repositories. Some part of me thinks it would be relaxing.
"PC equivalent of a rusted out CJ-7"
heh nice
Re: NetBSD 9.1
#9Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?
In my experience the 68k branches tend to be pretty far behind in packages on the repositories. So, you'd be forced to compile a lot of stuff yourself to get much mileage. Given that you're already running the PC equivalent of a rusted out CJ-7, maybe that's just fine. I keep meaning to help with the pkg repositories. Some part of me thinks it would be relaxing.
A lot of packages use autoconf which is really slow on a 68k machine.
Re: NetBSD 9.1
#10Fell in love with NetBSD seeing it work perfectly on my Sega Dreamcast (you could buy a keyboard and a mouse for it). Internet and all...