Linux+browsers

[kas1e]

slow, but it work. if we will have driver for mediator/voodoo3 for a1200/a4000 it must be fast and good. As i said before, i run on AGA in 256 colors Netscape and Mozilla on 060. And problem only with video speed.

[Piru]

But for now I was thinking of trying linux on the A4000T which has a cyberstorm (68040 on 40Mhz) and the picasso2 and 80 Mb on board.)
Surely this is powerful enough to try linux?

Yes. Linux runs on it for sure, but don't expect ultrafast experience with X.

But what to install? Debian version number?

Debian stable (woody) is a good start.

Stable has the most complete installation manual. Later I'd recommend you upgrade to Debian testing (sarge) (it's just matter of changing apt sources.list lines and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade).

It's also possible to install sarge directly, but this is less documented.

Does it contain the picasso driver?

Yes. Linux (the kernel) includes cirrusfb driver:

Chip families supported:
        SD64
        Piccolo
        Picasso
        Spectrum
        Alpine (GD-543x/4x)
        Picasso4 (GD-5446)
        GD-5480
        Laguna (GD-546x)
 
Bus's supported:
        PCI
        Zorro
 
Architectures supported:
        i386
        Alpha
        PPC (Motorola Powerstack)
        m68k (Amiga)

Also, Debian 3.0 (woody) for m68k -page could prove useful (yeah, kas1e posted this link already).

[Piru]

mozilla in Debian