> > FreeBSD 4.7 just got released. Download the ISO (or two.. since the > > live filesystem on disc two is useful :) > > Hmm.. let me guess.. www.freebsd.org?
Use a mirror, please. > > If you have to insist on using an Amiga-able BSD, NetBSD should be > > just fine, but running it on something that slow really isn't useful. > > Let's see, uhm.. No. I cannot see any OS other than the AmigaOS being > able to run swiftly on the Amiga hardware. I remember the Quadras, > even a 486 is zippy in comparison. Actually the Quadra is a really nice little machine if you put the right version of MacOS on it. 7.0.1 goes like a beast on it. > > It got used, definitely. More than most. Had it for nigh on 6 years > > now, and now it's dead.. well.. fuck it ;) > > There are times when you just have to light a candle, throw a black > cloth over something, and write it's obituary. Sometimes, something > is just *dead*. I wouldn't waste the money on the candle, cloth or paper. It's dead, I'm going to steal all of it's cables and use them for real computers :) > > I'm getting a laptop and another peice of hardware which will more > > than provide for it's "services". > > Hey do what you have to! I know it sounds insane, but maybe you guys > could get a couple of "developer" systems from those wanting thier > hw/os combos to have better software :-P Yup, and the world is flat; > because you know that it makes too much sense. Who said some of us don't already have those? :) I have plenty of hardware lying around capable of doing development on, at least two of them could be classed as suitable development systems for Voyager. Neither of them work too well right now though, which is why I'm not personally doing anything. Zapek has more than enough wrt resources to compile Voyager but he's very busy with other work right now. Did we put up a new beta yet? I suspect not. > Heh, no thanks. We could post them on Ebay as collectors' items :-) Ahhh.. eBay is a good idea. > Well, I'm willing to try to help, if you guys would like. You can't really help much :) > > > date... With an 040/25, it would take what, days to cross-compile the > > > PPC version? :-P > > > > A couple of hours, for large values of couple, I'd say about 18-20. The > > bottleneck is disk speed even on a PPC. ixemul doesn't help. > > Brr. That's a while. I can see why a seperate system for compiles > like that are necissary. That's why I have a 450MHz FreeBSD box here.. so I can compile stuff. I have projects with 20MB source trees, and doing it on a 240MHz PPC really did take onwards of 6 hours using onboard IDE, would have taken more like 3 hours on the SCSI disks.. perhaps faster disks, a little more RAM (not that 128MB is little RAM :) - perhaps some tweaks to the ixemul system and it could go faster. Nonetheless, it took 12 minutes on my FreeBSD box. Who cares about compilers on Amigas? :) -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
