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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
 Posted - 26 Feb 2002 : 16:15:02
Have you done it?Are you interested? I'm installing tonight on a Quadra 630. Reports will Follow. Marchie out. ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac -
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2002 : 16:34:56
I've only used Minix.It was kinda crappy. Look forward to your findings!!! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2002 : 16:43:23
quote:
Have you done it?
Are you interested?
I'm installing tonight on a Quadra 630.
Reports will Follow.
Marchie out.
Aye! Done it on a... Quadra 630 myself!. It runs well well well - if you're ok with doing most everything on a command line, it's even better!. Some of the gui stuff works pretty decently, but some is obviously not as optimised for macs as the native macOS. Mine is Debian with a 2.2.19 kernel, and about all thats installed at the moment is Apache, and a few other unix apps I've gotten used to over a few years. It runs it -exceptionally- well... dana
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Wonkothesane
Full Member
USA
506 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2002 : 17:53:59
What sort of GUI do Linux distros for 68k's have? Is it KDE, GNOME or just XFree86? I would install Linux on one of my 68k's, but I don't think that I would be able to handle a CLI-only OS.Wonko The Sane
Engineer-in-training
3 Macs Liberated
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2002 : 17:59:05
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What sort of GUI do Linux distros for 68k's have? Is it KDE, GNOME or just XFree86? I would install Linux on one of my 68k's, but I don't think that I would be able to handle a CLI-only OS.
Under debian I ran Gnome for a little while - and tried a few other very very basic window managers just sitting on top of X, which were nice enough. Gnome had no speed problems - I even ran mozilla under it, which worked a bit sluggish considering what it was doing, but considering the machine it was on - I was stunned. I did try enlightenment - and I ran screaming. What an amazingly badly made gui, a resource hog, and multiple copies of features that just made me feel like I was in a bizarre alternate version of Windows. Do I sound like I didn't like it? :D dana
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Tallgeese
Full Member
USA
523 Posts |
Posted - 26 Feb 2002 : 20:51:02
I'll be running Linux68k on my Quadra 700 as soon as I get a small, external SCSI HD to put it on...Sgt. Tallgeese
Thread Lord of Darkness
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Wonkothesane
Full Member
USA
506 Posts |
Posted - 27 Feb 2002 : 20:50:04
Is there a 68k version of KDE? I've seen some screenshots of it, and it looks really cool, a lot like MacOS 8+.Wonko The Sane
Engineer-in-training
3 Macs Liberated
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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 15:49:14
well... KDE is open source, and works on Intel, Solaris, and PPC... and all ti REALLY requires is Linux... so technically it's just a recompile... but GODS that compile would take days...Sounds like a good idea if I can get the hard drive space :-) ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie Holder of the Compact Mac -
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Wonkothesane
Full Member
USA
506 Posts |
Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 22:27:23
Would you be able to compile the KDE source code with CodeWarrior under 7.5.3 and use it later under Linux, or would you have to use gcc under Linux?Wonko The Sane
Engineer-in-training
3 Macs Liberated
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 23:18:01
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Would you be able to compile the KDE source code with CodeWarrior under 7.5.3 and use it later under Linux, or would you have to use gcc under Linux?
do it under linux - compiling is quick there :P. besides, thats the environment it's meant to run under. Usually with a linux compile, you extract the source to a folder somewhere, go into the folder and do... ./configure to configure the compiler options to your machine then... make to do the make script. and then you wander away for an hour or so on a 68k, and come back when it's done :D. after that do: make install and it'll install it all. Thats the usual way anyhoo - more often there is a README file that you read first - mostly it just tells you the above... dana
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TiMacLover
Senior Member
USA
1282 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2002 : 01:28:11
Does Debian 2.1 run on a 68x0?Jeremy
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markymark
Junior Member
223 Posts |
Posted - 09 Mar 2002 : 06:13:57
A thing I'm going to try one day is to run Basilisk II 68k emu on a 68040 mac using Linux. Basilisk II should run in native mode (no 68k to x86 instruction translation required) so it should nearly be as fast as running MacOS in the usual way. I know there is a 68k bsd version of Basilisk around using native mode. Compiling Basilisk on 68k Linux with the native mode option enabled should work as far as I can see. Of course the mac has to have a fair bit of memory and free disk space for the hfv volume that Basilisk uses. With that setup you can bounce between Linux and MacOS without rebooting or anything like that.
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