Linux for Amiga and C64

[Xenobiotical]

Dear Friends,

i have a question... Was ever made Linux for Amiga and for Commodore 64?

thank you for replies


Carlo

[Hell Labs]

Dear Friends,

i have a question... Was ever made Linux for Amiga and for Commodore 64?

thank you for replies


Carlo

Think Amiga yes...

but C64? Not a chance. Have a look at this though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiki

[a1200]

There is a linux/unix-like OS for the C64: http://lng.sourceforge.net/

Amiga 68k Linux needed an MMU so it was 030 or greater, versions of Debian and I think Yellow Dog were compiled for M68k/Amiga.

[redrumloa]

For the Commodore 64 there is Lunix

http://lng.sourceforge.net/

There were a buttload of Lunix distros for the Amiga, 68k and PPC but I never followed it. Minix was an early one.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINIX

[kolla]

There is a linux/unix-like OS for the C64: http://lng.sourceforge.net/

Amiga 68k Linux needed an MMU so it was 030 or greater, versions of Debian and I think Yellow Dog were compiled for M68k/Amiga.

No, not Yellow Dog - YD is basically RedHat for PowerPC. Or was, it kind of took its own way at some point.

Today the only m68k distros alive is Debian and my own Gentoo/m68k project.

http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/m68k/

Debian still has a semiworking installer, I'm an elitist who dont believe in installers so with Gentoo you'd have to do everything manually :laughing:

[kolla]

For the Commodore 64 there is Lunix

http://lng.sourceforge.net/

There were a buttload of Lunix distros for the Amiga, 68k and PPC but I never followed it. Minix was an early one.

Neither Lunix nor Minix is Linux, and there really was just one distro ever that supported m68k and that was Debian. In addition there was a redhat based package repository maintained by Jes Sørensen, who also was chief m68k kernel dev for many years. Today Debian wants to get rid of old archs that delays releases, it was just barely along with Debian Etch, and there is no Debian Lenny for m68k. The kernel devs are considering alternatives.

[darkage]

First *nix that comes to mind is NetBSD which had 68k ports a very long time ago.   Even when I was still active using my Amiga back in the last 90's this 68k port existed so should have alot of good documentation around and time to mature.

Even though its not linux might be something good to look at.   I  prefer BSD style since Linux can get a bit bloated at times.

http://www.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/

[Gulliver]

There is also OpenBSD for 68k Amigas, but it is not an actual port!