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Offline Matt_H

Re: Who used AMIX?
« on: February 14, 2010, 08:36:15 PM »
From what I've read over the years, Amix had a reputation of simply being a damn good implementation of Unix.

I don't think anyone "still" runs it, but the tremendous efforts of Failure here at Amiga.org have brought it back from the dead, so a few of us have started running it :) (I haven't booted my Amix partition in ages, though). The marketing brochure at the Amix Wiki describes some clients.

In the Deathbed Vigil, Dave Haynie talks about Amix a bit. Sun was interested in using the 3000UX as their OEM Unix 68K platform, but Commodore management managed to botch the deal - twice. One of the Amix developers is also in DBV, and describes the last few days of the gutted Amix team.
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: Who used AMIX?
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2010, 10:20:35 PM »
The so-called HD Hack method has the unfortunate side effect of breaking the package management system, which means the patch disk to bring Amix up to its final version won't work.