GoKawiilYear of the Amiga Unix Desktop 2026
Amiga Unix, again
Amiga Unix — Amix — was Commodore's System V Release 4 for the Amiga: shipped in 1990–92 for the A2500UX and A3000UX, then left where it stood. amigaux.org is an unofficial community project that picks it up again: Amix on 68040 and 68060 machines and on today's accelerator hardware, with a modern toolchain, a package manager, and drivers for cards that never had any. The work is done in the open, and written down as it happens in the grimoire.
Soon: install it yourself The install medium boots from floppy and CD-ROM on real hardware — floppy image and ISO under emulation — and takes care of the whole installation, interactively or unattended. With supported hardware, getting Amix onto a machine comes down to following the prompts. The classic tape install follows later. From there the network takes over: apkg installs packages straight from pkg.amigaux.org — grep, gzip, less, patch and zlib to start with, and more GNU and BSD tools as they are built and tested. # apkg update catalog updated: 39 packages # apkg install less downloading extra/less-704.pkg ... installed less-704
Installing on a real 68060. Keymap, disk, partition sizes, package set — then it shows you what it is about to do. Real time, with the long waits taken out.
First boot. It names itself, sets the clock, writes its hosts file — including the package repository — and comes up at a login prompt.
Where we are
Working today
68040/68060 support — Amix 2.1 on a real 68060, with or without FPU; an MMU is mandatory. The kernel: asokero/amix-040-060-port
— Amix 2.1 on a real 68060, with or without FPU; an MMU is mandatory. The kernel: asokero/amix-040-060-port Z3660 accelerator — native SCSI and ethernet drivers, proven on real hardware
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