Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message |> [Copy of email sent to Guenther] In article < [email protected] >, [email protected] (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:|> [Copy of email sent to Guenther]  Didn't get any email from you by now. Hi Jordan, hi world! I want to clear things up a bit and answer your question, why we are 'starting' with Linux. I have followed the discussions about Unix on the Amiga for about two years now. I have concluded the following, please correct me if I am wrong: There is a community of Amiga-freaks who like to unix (never tried it as a verb before) on their Amiga, including me. I haven't been able to pay for the commercial version from CBM (Amix), but was willing to work for a PD-version of AmigaUnix, i.e. to do some programming for it. I haven't had a look at the mach-sources you mention above, but I have to say, that the work around it got quite silent. I don't now what the current stage is, but I haven't seen anything working around, nor a statement when it will be available. I, too, don't know, how much work will have to be invested in porting BSDSS to KludgeMach on the 680x0. What I do know is, that some people have been working on a port of AmigaLinux for a long time, but the team of porters fizzled. An independent work of this group was done by Hamish, who got quite far without the help of anybody. He released his work to the public in order to find other programmers helping him on his port. It was a 'working' kernel, with most of the drivers missing, and therefore it was (it still is, although some drivers have already been addad).only useable for other developers. As this is the (IMHO) most promising effort underway at the moment, I am willing to join this team as soon as I am able to (need 68030-board for A1000). I don't want to see the port ending up into a discussion, where to start the port. I want to do some real work and the sources provided by Hamish are the best way to do. I don't want to discuss, if it is better to port mach and then bsdss or 386bsd or anything else, but I want to join the most promising effort to have Un*x running SOON on your Amiga. I haven't heard about the 386bsd-port to HP 68040 boxes. Maybe you can email me about that. I am not willing to reinvent the wheel. If there is something, we can merge into AmigaLinux and it helps us saving time then, of course, it will be merged with the current port of AmigaLinux. That's all for now. Any questions and comments welcome. Guenther ---------------------- Guenther Grau, Willy-Andreas-Allee 7, D-7500 (76131) Karlsruhe 1, FRG Institute for Dialoque- and Operatingsystems, University of Karlsruhe Home : +49 721 23445