Has anyone ever heard of someone running this:
http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
I saw the link, but did not believe it, but it certainly looks legit!
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2011, September 9 - 9:46am
#1
Debian on 68k??!! WTF!!??
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2011, September 9 - 10:14am
#2
Why don’t you believe it? Debian for m68k is there since 1998.
2011, September 9 - 7:32pm
#3
Debian runs on so many archs. Now officially both Linux and BSD. There's even a very interesting port by Nexenta to the Solaris kernel for storage applications.
It really is the universal operating system. I run it on all my servers. Love it.
As for running it on a Mac, I think only few models and no emulator work.
2011, September 9 - 7:57pm
#4
Debian 5 is the last release for the mac68k platform. It will likely go out of support early next year.
It worked great, but doing anything in a modern desktop with that vintage of CPU is slow. Fifteen minutes (or more) to start the window manager, or a browser, or generate an ssh key, etc.
2011, September 9 - 8:36pm
#5
I have always enjoyed NetBSD on macs, both power and 68k.
2011, September 11 - 5:29am
#6
@themacmeister:
Has anyone ever heard of someone running this:
I loaded Debian (Potato or Woody) onto a Quadra 700 and ran it for a while.
X windows took forever to do anything so the GUI was basically a "proof of concept" rather than usable, I thought, but the CLI was OK.
2011, September 11 - 8:41am
#7
I ran Slackintosh 11 on an old G3 blue & white tower. It ran surprisingly well, considering the speed of the processor, amount of RAM, pathetic video card.
I believe I installed XFCE as the WM, and was impressed by its speediness/responsiveness.
2011, September 11 - 9:10am
#8
On a G3 Mac, Linux is nice. The better the graphics card the better the GUI part of a distro performs too.
I've run Mandrake, Ubuntu and Yellow Dog on a G3 with good results. My favourite tho' was the now ancient "LinuxPPC 2000 Q4", now that distro was really nice, I thought.