> > Hmm.. let me guess.. www.freebsd.org? > > Use a mirror, please.
Do they have a mirror linked to the main site? Not been there yet, as I've not cranked up the windows box (the one with the cd burner, naturally) > > > 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. I suppose that I've only experienced ones with the wrong softs on it, the one I tried crawled... > > 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 understand. I've been known to salvage cables, drives, switches, and anything I can off of dead beasts. > > > 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? :) Oh, right. Sorry then. :) > 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. Unfortunate fact of life, things break. Real life is always interrupting stuff. As do, video games, books, movies, and the opposite sex ;-) > 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. One must put food on the table. I would love to say "get to work!" But hey, everyone has to cover their bills, eat, have vehicles, and housing too. I'll not pester you about V for another month or two, promise :-) > > Well, I'm willing to try to help, if you guys would like. > > You can't really help much :) I find it difficult to _just_ complain about something without offering to help in some way. > > 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. Interesting. Well, I seem to remember something about the Amiga's disk access being really horrible... I snatched the 6G hdd out of my dead A4000, and put it in the Amithlon box. I got this drive and one exactly like it a couple of years ago, and it is definately faster on Amithlon/Linux than on either Amigas. There are issues that *must* be addressed on the Amiga, and that is all there is to it. Whether it's OS4 or MorphOS, the disk access system has to be evaluated and fixed. > Nonetheless, it took 12 minutes on my FreeBSD box. Who cares about compilers > on Amigas? :) I'de like to set up something like that on my Linux install, but I'm still rather clumsy with linux still. -- -- Regards, Dave 'Targhan' Crawford
