Hi, I would like to introduce myself to the list and see what kind of interest I can stir in some of my projects.
I run NetBSD on many Macintoshes (mostly Quadras plus a few PowerMacs). The hardware is excellent and the price, especially for Quadra hardware, can't be beat. The machines in general are much more reliable than common PC hardware, which is why I use Quadras as IP NAT / IPv6 routers, DNS servers, and web servers for static content. But I'm sure that everyone here knows this. I am a NetBSD developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) involved in m68k NetBSD development. I run NetBSD on several m68060 Amigas - one is colocated and serving over 200 users and 150 domains with around 10 gigabytes a day of both dynamic and static web traffic. Some time during this coming week, I'm going to be colocating an Amiga 1200 which I have built into a 1U case. This machine will be set up primarily for NetBSD development, m68k testing, and NetBSD binary package building, but it will also be hosting web sites for any free / open source projects which need hosting. Email me if you have a project / know of one looking for hosting. The first development project we will be undertaking is the building of a Mac m68k snapshot for machines without FPUs. What's special about this? Well, until now all common m68k Unix-like OSes (A/UX, m68k-Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD) have included code in the kernel to trap FPU calls to emulate an FPU if one is not installed. Our snapshot will simply NOT call the FPU at all, so no traps are necessary. The source tree and toolchain have been patched to produce and run binaries which use the soft-float instead of the FPU. When everything has been cleaned up and tested, we will commit the code to the NetBSD tree and eventually to the m68k gcc code. Bruce O'Neel already produced a snapshot of NetBSD 1.6 which works on FPU-less systems, and there are only a handful of quirks in that which have mostly to do with number formatting in certain utilities. He is responsible for most of the work done so far - we're all be appreciative of his efforts, and are glad that he is continuing with his involvement. What this means to the Unix on Mac community is that now you will be able to run a Unix(like) OS on machines with LC040s, which, until now, were somewhere between very problematic and unsupported (problematic == executables would sometimes run, sometimes dump core - not useful in an unattended system). Soon we'll be looking for people to test the snapshots and binary software we create. We'd also like to hear from any web designers who might like to donate a little time towards making a page or two for http://www.mac68k.org/ (nothing there at the moment), as I am not very motivated when it comes to web design. Finally, anyone who would like to participate / help / work on other m68k projects and / or host projects or use the 1U Amiga for development should feel free to contact me directly. Information about the 1U Amiga: http://www.sixgirls.org/lilith/ Thanks, John Klos Sixgirls Computing Labs -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
