Anybody running Linux on a 68030?

[Failure]

I am looking for someone running Linux on a 68030/25MHz Amiga, preferably an A3000 using the internal SCSI and an A2065 NIC but I am not especially picky really.  I would like to do some performance comparisons between the Linux Amiga and my Amiga running Commodore Amiga UNIX.  Just for fun (as if anybody would take such benchmarks seriously!).

Hell, did I say Linux?  Bias I guess on my part -- any BSD is fine too.

Ideas I had for comparison were:

* filesystem throughput using bonnie
* bzip2/gzip comparison (results probably meaningless but hey)
* network throughput using rcp, scp, http, nfs, and ftp
* ssh-keygen speed (Linux/BSD should blow the doors of AMIX here for various reasons)

Any ideas for more tests?  Assuming I can find somebody interested in helping me.

Oh, and it would be really helpful if you can compile the same versions of software I am using.  I am version-locked on some things, notably gcc, due to AMIX being rather abandoned in terms of support.

[hot2not]

 Hello :-)

I´m running Debian linux on a Amiga 1200 68030 50MHz (w/o FPU), 2MB Chip ram and 32MB fast ram. I´m booting from a 2½" EIDE harddrive. But it is slow...


Brian

[Effy]

Brian : would it help to use 128 Mb instead of 32 Mb Or is Linux not so memory hungry as Windows Does Linux also use the 68882 coprocessor if you have one

[MrZammler]

@Failure:

I'm running NetBSD 1.6.2 on a 68030/68882 50Mhz A1200, and NetBSD 2.0 on an 060 50Mhz A3000, so, let me know what you'd want (although there is a 25Mhz difference on the 030)

[mjg59]

My 3000 dual-boots Linux and AMIX, so if I actually get round to switching it on again, I ought to be able to do some comparative tests on identical hardware.

[leirbag28]

 Someone ought to make a LINUX CD by simply dragging ones Linux Partition onto a CD just like that..........to make installation a breeze.

That said:

@hot2not
Can I have an image of your entire Debian Linux Partition? :-D

I am Dying to have linux on my 68030 50mhz 128mb Amiga

[Effy]

leirbag28 : you mean a bootable CDrom like OS3.9 Sounds great !! I would certainly like to buy that one !!!!

[leirbag28]

@Effy

 No not like that............Although that would be nice too!

I just mean for someone to drag their own already made Linux Partition and copy it to a CD with MakeCD and all we have to do is, make a partition for Linux and drag the contents accross and whalla!

[Cass]

There is already a Live PPC Linux distro, but unfortunately doesn't support the CSPPC/BPPC :-( .

Let's hope that the PPC version of NetBSD will be out soon, the 68K one has been out for a long time now...

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[bloodline]

Cass wrote:
There is already a Live PPC Linux distro, but unfortunately doesn't support the CSPPC/BPPC :-( .

Let's hope that the PPC version of NetBSD will be out soon, the 68K one has been out for a long time now...

I've still got ASUS on my A1200's hard drive...

[Failure]

mjg59 wrote:
My 3000 dual-boots Linux and AMIX, so if I actually get round to switching it on again, I ought to be able to do some comparative tests on identical hardware.

Excellent!  If you don't mind applying some power to your A3000, your setup seems ideal.

I meant to ask the senior SE at work about some other ways to measure the relative performance/efficiency of the OSs but it slipped my mind.  Been so busy with other stuff at work lately.

I guess since there seems to be some interest from folks with different hardware specs, and I am interested to see how they perform myself...I will make a wiki page to post the results as they come in.  I'll throw a link here once I get the first round done on my machine.  Thanks everyone for the offers :-)

[Failure]

Check out this blistering speed!  Bonnie (last rev, not Bonnie++) on Amiga UNIX 2.1c:

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