[Howto] Installing a current release of Debian on Amiga

[TeamBlackFox]

So just a few questions for you Adrian if you don't mind:

Does this port of Debian run under systemd or sysvinit?

Is there any support for the PowerPC addons?

Is the reason you're helping maintain the Debian port along the same lines as why NetBSD maintains their port? Because it seems Debian and NetBSD do have their parallels in philosophy.

Just a few questions from a former GNU/Linux user who moved on recently.

[TeamBlackFox]

>  To what? Debian is still the most universal operating system you can get.

For my main desktop, FreeBSD. For portability, NetBSD or OpenBSD. NetBSD supports a significantly wider range of platforms, if I decide whatever the device traditionally runs is inferior to the NetBSD/OpenBSD port.

Nothing against Debian itself, my issues lie with the setup of GNU/Linux itself.
 
Thanks for answering my questions as I was just curious as how it compared to the Amiga/68k NetBSD port.

[TeamBlackFox]

Dandy you should really look at NetBSD for the Amiga as that has significantly better support including most mediator PCI boards. NetBSD is a traditional UNIX quite unlike GNU/Linux but you may like that flair, I certainly do.

For Adrian as it seems there are some hardware hurdles to get over you may want to check out the NetBSD code and see if the driver code could be ported. BSD licencing is GPL compatible so there shouldn't be any issue.