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NetBSD 9.1

100 points by fcambus 6y ago

hestefisk 6y ago
Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  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.
- rjsw 6y ago
  Not on an Amiga but I do run it on a Macintosh.
- dayofthedaleks 6y ago
  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.
  - metalliqaz 6y ago
    "PC equivalent of a rusted out CJ-7" heh nice
  - rjsw 6y ago
    A lot of packages use autoconf which is really slow on a 68k machine.
- PAPPPmAc 6y ago
  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.
  - kps 6y ago
    Similarly, in the '90s I had a second-hand Mac IIsi (with a second hard drive stuffed in place of the floppy) as a poor man's UNIX workstation. Later I worked my way through various other second-hand workstations (VAX, MIPS, Alpha) all running NetBSD.
- kstrauser 6y ago
  I did at one point long ago. But now I kinda wanna do that so I can see ZFS on a 68K machine.
  - kjs3 6y ago
    Some things are not meant for the eyes of mortals...
    - kstrauser 6y ago
      I completely agree, fellow mortal!
- kjs3 6y ago
  I used to run NetBSD on all kinds of 68k based VME bus cards, and would occasionally do builds for a friends Amiga. I think he had a 33MHz '030 upgrade, so the 50Mhz '060 was quite a speed bump. The Amiga was cooler, tho. Still have a bunch of the VME kit.
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Koshkin 6y ago
Fell 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...
- cogburnd02 6y ago
  I have yet to get mine working. I got a GDEMU and then upon taking my DC apart realized I had the wrong model. Also have a PS2 trackball and PS2->DC kb/mouse adapter.
- jolmg 6y ago
  So, after reading your comment I was wondering: Why do that? I found these links: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0004.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0004... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/26/0004.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/26/0004... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0011.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0011... The last one is the one I liked most, which is basically: > To write video games. I wonder if there are really people interested enough to do that, though.
  - cogburnd02 6y ago
    mini-HTPC to watch movies on.
    - deleted 6y ago
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krytarowski 6y ago
I like that the NetBSD user-community has now a friendly and pretty looking forum on https://www.unitedbsd.com/ https://www.unitedbsd.com/

NetBSD 9.1

100 points by fcambus 6y ago

hestefisk 6y ago

Anyone here running NetBSD on their Amiga?

Jaruzel 6y ago
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.
rjsw 6y ago
Not on an Amiga but I do run it on a Macintosh.
dayofthedaleks 6y ago
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.
- metalliqaz 6y ago
  "PC equivalent of a rusted out CJ-7" heh nice
- rjsw 6y ago
  A lot of packages use autoconf which is really slow on a 68k machine.
PAPPPmAc 6y ago
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.
- kps 6y ago
  Similarly, in the '90s I had a second-hand Mac IIsi (with a second hard drive stuffed in place of the floppy) as a poor man's UNIX workstation. Later I worked my way through various other second-hand workstations (VAX, MIPS, Alpha) all running NetBSD.
kstrauser 6y ago
I did at one point long ago. But now I kinda wanna do that so I can see ZFS on a 68K machine.
- kjs3 6y ago
  Some things are not meant for the eyes of mortals...
  - kstrauser 6y ago
    I completely agree, fellow mortal!
kjs3 6y ago
I used to run NetBSD on all kinds of 68k based VME bus cards, and would occasionally do builds for a friends Amiga. I think he had a 33MHz '030 upgrade, so the 50Mhz '060 was quite a speed bump. The Amiga was cooler, tho. Still have a bunch of the VME kit.

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Koshkin 6y ago

Fell 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...

cogburnd02 6y ago
I have yet to get mine working. I got a GDEMU and then upon taking my DC apart realized I had the wrong model. Also have a PS2 trackball and PS2->DC kb/mouse adapter.
jolmg 6y ago
So, after reading your comment I was wondering: Why do that? I found these links: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0004.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0004... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/26/0004.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/26/0004... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0011.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dreamcast/2002/01/27/0011... The last one is the one I liked most, which is basically: > To write video games. I wonder if there are really people interested enough to do that, though.
- cogburnd02 6y ago
  mini-HTPC to watch movies on.
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]

krytarowski 6y ago

I like that the NetBSD user-community has now a friendly and pretty looking forum on https://www.unitedbsd.com/ https://www.unitedbsd.com/