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- From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz)
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- Subject: Re: Falcon and Unix Sys V
- Message-ID: <921221401@ritz.mordor.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 11:51:15 GMT
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- Risto Juvonen (alien@clinet.fi) wrote:
- : neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes:
- : :
- : : I am hearing rumours that some people are porting Linux, a free Unix popular
- : : on the PC, to the ST and Amiga platforms. I doubt it would be up to much on
- : : a 68000 but on a 68030 in a TT or a Falcon it could be quite neat. I have
- : : seen it running X on a 486 PC just fine.
- : :
- : That sounds very good! I was just thinking of gettin 386 for unix,
- : and you how much I hate PC's. Now I can get another TT to run unix!
- : Yes!
-
- I wouldn't hold your breath. Linux is definitely a quality piece of
- work and I have briefly used it, but the author, Linus Torvalds, has
- stated on numerous occasions that it is very 3/486 dependent. Rumour
- has it that an Amiga port is being contemplated, but this is the
- first time I have heard about an Atari port. If you want cheap unix,
- a pc clone is probably your best bet at this point.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Chris
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