Hello AmiBayers.
I just wanted to let you know about recent improvements in NetBSD project.
- Driver for a BlizzardPPC 603e+ SCSI controller is finished, and will be included in upcoming 6.0 release.
- Port for classic Amigas with Phase5 PPC cards is working (natively) and fully utilizing PowerPC processing power. There are still bugs related to DMA, but the system is usable.
- Fixes related to A600 are progressing now (thanks to ACA630, which makes NetBSD on A600 possible). NetBSD already works on A600, but now this model is misdetected as A1200.
- More drivers (FastATA 4000, SUBWAY) are in the works, and hopefully will be finished soon.
For those who never heard of NetBSD: it is a modern, extremely portable UNIX-like operating system. It supports Amiga since 1993.
In case you're interested in trying NetBSD, requirements are: any classic Amiga, CPU with MMU, 32MB RAM, about 500MB of free (unpartitioned) space on HDD.
Please check out NetBSD web site! http://netbsd.org/
I just wanted to let you know about recent improvements in NetBSD project.
- Driver for a BlizzardPPC 603e+ SCSI controller is finished, and will be included in upcoming 6.0 release.
- Port for classic Amigas with Phase5 PPC cards is working (natively) and fully utilizing PowerPC processing power. There are still bugs related to DMA, but the system is usable.
- Fixes related to A600 are progressing now (thanks to ACA630, which makes NetBSD on A600 possible). NetBSD already works on A600, but now this model is misdetected as A1200.
- More drivers (FastATA 4000, SUBWAY) are in the works, and hopefully will be finished soon.
For those who never heard of NetBSD: it is a modern, extremely portable UNIX-like operating system. It supports Amiga since 1993.
In case you're interested in trying NetBSD, requirements are: any classic Amiga, CPU with MMU, 32MB RAM, about 500MB of free (unpartitioned) space on HDD.
Please check out NetBSD web site! http://netbsd.org/