19 January 2019, 15:04 | #1 |
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Amiga Unix - awesome!
Unix on an Amiga!! This is awesome. I downloaded Amix just to see if I could get it to work ... and yes, sure did ... within WinUAE.
Can relive some of my old university days ... command line Unix, C programming etc |
19 January 2019, 19:50 | #2 |
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Cool, I'm going to try it this weekend too.
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20 January 2019, 00:08 | #4 |
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Nice, I’m a Linux Admin or so they say. I’ll figure it out, thanx for the tips.
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21 January 2019, 12:03 | #5 |
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FYI, you can get linux running on an Amiga as well - I set it up on my A4000 in the late 90's ;-)
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21 January 2019, 20:26 | #8 |
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I too ran Linux on my A4000 in the 90's. At the time there were no distributions. All I had was an old bootable image from an Atari user. Using that I formatted my drives and slowly built a more modern Linux from source. Great learning experience!
X-Windows was perfectly usable. Even apps like GIMP worked. Debian/68k is available now but it's probably outdated. 68k is still supported in the mainstream kernel. A guy called Geert Uytterhoeven keeps the fire burning! |
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I wish I had run Linux on my Amiga 4000 in the 1990’s.
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22 January 2019, 09:04 | #10 |
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Yes but installation of a mix takes a long time because of the decompressing. I think installation takes 60 minutes. It did for me but it is great
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Yes, Geert was also behind lots of the stuff back in the 90's. I too assembled my installation from bits from here and there - compiling a kernel took like a whole day or something.. I remember trying the "Lightning" window manager on the Amiga - slow as hell. On the other hand, I used 'AmiWM' as window manager on the Sun workstations at the university, which ran really well |
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It's neither Unix nor Linux, but if someone is just looking for a Unix-like experience, then NetBSD supports Amiga and is actively developed:
https://netbsd.org/ |
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I used a 68030 Sun Workstation in 1993/4. Chatting to Amiga nerds across the world on Usenet was great. It didn't have a floppy so transferring Aminet downloads to my A500 was tricky. |
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Can only assume everyone who used Linux had a graphics card as I have tried it on an 060 with AGA and even the console output was painfully slow. Completely unusable.
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likely, modern kernels spawn a ~640x480 256 color fb, it wasn't so bad back in the day with a 1bpp or 4bpp fb. |
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I tried to run the installer but it failed at the last step when patching the kernel. Wonder what I am doing wrong,
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Before he jumped to Linux, his main reason for fame in Amiga land was MuFS. http://aminet.net/search?readme=Uytterhoeven |
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18 May 2020, 03:54 | #19 |
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still enjoying the unix Amiga port ... it's actually a full fledged port of Unix System V release 4 .... MOST impressive they got it working in Amiga
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I have it running on my A3000... I love it for nostalgic reasons as it gives me the same feeling I had when I was at Uni on HP9000s. Too bad I cannot find MOTIF for Amix even though I read somewhere that the Atari Unix version works. Ah well, I sold my completed 3000UX that I collected over many years to fund the family so I do not have a proper graphics card for MOTIF anyway.
I switched from my 2000 to Linux on a 486 in ~93 as I could not afford an Amiga 3k or 4k or any good accelerator. Found out about this guy doing a free Unix version, bought a generic PC, downloaded SLS 0.98 and had an awesome cheap Unix workstation. |
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