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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Amithony on December 01, 2008, 07:55:54 AM

Title: UNIX for Amiga? Anyone tried it?
Post by: Amithony on December 01, 2008, 07:55:54 AM: I was pondering trying to port firefox over from linux :)
Title: Re: UNIX for Amiga? Anyone tried it?
Post by: kolla on December 01, 2008, 08:41:58 AM: What do you mean with "UNIX for Amiga"? AMIX?

There are plenty of us that run Linux or NetBSD on our old amigas, but I doubt anyone bothered with Firefox, which is quite a monster and would run insanely slow anyways.
Title: Re: UNIX for Amiga? Anyone tried it?
Post by: Amithony on December 01, 2008, 09:35:35 AM: Yeah I know, i just wanted to see how slow.
Title: Re: UNIX for Amiga? Anyone tried it?
Post by: rbelk on December 01, 2008, 02:50:08 PM: I have used MINIX, NetBSD, Linux (Debian), and Amiga's UNIX AMIX on different models. The fastest and bestest(haha) is Minix. Check it ot at The Amiga MINIX Page (http://home.arcor.de/kickstart/TKA/Tutorials/AmigaMINIX/aminix.html). It is only text based, but it is good enough to get the feeling of a UNIX system.

[EDIT] I will try to locate the MINIX 1.5 disks on the Internet and include the link in this post. MINIX for the Amiga will run on the following.

* The harddisk driver works with the A590, A2091 and A3000.
* MINIX can use all A3000 32-bit fastmem.
* MINIX runs on 68000, 68010, 68020 and 68030 processors.

[EDIT] MINIX 2.0 did not come out for the Amiga. For the complete MINIX 1.5 Disk Images, Documentation, and updates to 1.5.10.2 use this link Aminet's Search for MINIX (http://aminet.net/search?query=amiga+minix)
Title: Re: UNIX for Amiga? Anyone tried it?
Post by: LoadWB on December 01, 2008, 03:05:23 PM: There are some people here who run NetBSD on Amiga. I have long had a plan to do so, but just can't get a Round Tuit.
Title: Re: UNIX for Amiga? Anyone tried it?
Post by: bloodline on December 01, 2008, 03:22:52 PM: I used to run APUS... it wasn't very useful...