kolla: You and I have to talk. First, it's nice to know that there's lots of love out there for rackmount A1200s... For a long time, I thought I was the only one. Nice job!
Thanks
Second, I'm a NetBSD geek, but I'm in the process of trying to help m68k/Debian get updated so that there can possibly be a Debian/squeeze release soon. Perhaps some of the work in Gentoo can help get Debian up to speed...
Aha, I have a couple of colleagues who are involved with NetBSD, and they sometimes try to lure me over to their side.
My gentoo/m68k effort is quite a personal one. I needed a system that could help me build the software I wanted with the features I wanted. Binary distributions simply dont give me that flexibility, Gentoo with its USE-flags and package masking does - I have to build everything myself, but that's ok, Aranym is of great help. I also find the Gentoo developer team quite a helpfull bunch, many of them are also embedded developers and adding m68k as a platform in portage happened after just some chatting over IRC.
I do follow Debian/m68k too, both mailing list and IRC, so that I have an idea on what's going on. I think the biggest problem with Debian and m68k is that Debian is too big and m68k too small, both as a community and in sheer compilation power. I think it would be better to treat m68k as an embedded platform and move over to
Emdebian instead of going for a full fledged distro as squeeze. In my view, m68k systems have much more in common with the embedded platforms than they do with todays PCs for example.
My big hope for 2010 is that we will finally get updated glibc (or eglibc) with NPTL. I'm still on old glibc-2.3.6, I know Debian somehow managed to get as far as 2.5, but I never got that compiled here. :hammer:
