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- From: Christopher.Dyken@p0.f1.n302.z86.nutfactory.apana.org.au (Christopher Dyken)
- Message-ID: <1DBF54F0@nutfactory.apana.org.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Unix on Amiga
- Date: 30 Dec 95 01:06:53 GMT+10
- Organization: A.M.i.G.A. User Support Group - Australia
- X-GateSoftware: AmiGate 1.5b (27.9.95)
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- >Lee (lee@insync.net) wrote:
- >: >KEITH PEPIN (keith.pepin@enest.com) wrote:
- >: >: I'm looking for a PD Unix for the Amiga. Any suggestions?
-
- >: >There are at least two options:
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- >: > 1) NetBSD 1.x (I think the latest version is 1.1)
- >: > 2) Linux m68k
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- >: >Both require at least a 68030...
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- >: I vote for NetBSD. It has Posix, and Sys 5 extensions, so you can
- >: compile
- >: anything! Of course, running through that 600 line makefile can be a bit
- >: rough... :-)
-
- >I'd have to cast a vote for Linux :^) I'm typing this right now from an
- >xterm running under Linux on an A4000/040. Linux has modest system
- >requirements (45mb used disk space (including X-Windows), 8mb ram to run
- >X-Windows well). I've been using it for less than a month, but it seems
- >VERY stable (GREAT JOB by the guys doing the Amiga Linux porting!).
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- How/Where can you obtain this and what degree of knowledge do you need to
- install this? Does it support Cybergraphics/vision?
-
- --
- Christopher Dyken (christod@sn.no)
- LoungeBar development
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