Thanks for the suggestion, Tim. I'm mostly not a platform bigot, I just
like tinkering with technology. I've used CP/M, DR-DOS, MS-DOS from 2.2 -
Win2K, five different flavors of GNU/Linux, Solaris, and several large
mainframe OSes. If NetBSD is the way to go on 68k machines, that's the way
I'll go.
As you note, the LC 475 is on the small side: only one expansion slot and a
68LC040 CPU. I understand the 68040 CPU (at 25Mhz) is pin-compatible with
the 68LC040, so I'll probably perform that upgrade. If I were to configure
it as a dual-homed system, I suppose I could put a NIC in the expansion
slot and hang an Asante EN/SC off the SCSI port. What a kludge!
But to get more back on-topic, it seems a lot more interesting to me to get
a beefed-up SE/30 and install NetBSD on it. There's something whimsically
charming about having a *nix OS in one of those classic Macintosh boxes. ;-)
Sp00ky
At 02:53 PM 6/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>sp00ky said, "Cayenne's comments almost tempt me to try loading GNU/Linux
>onto my LC 475." Unless you really prefer your *nix to be Linux for some
>reason, use NetBSD on 68k machines. Version 1.6 was supposed to be out last
>week, but evidently it's still in beta. 1.5.2 is very stable though from
>what I've read. I've got enough other projects right now, so I can wait for
>1.6 before trying it on my SE/30. You probably want a full '040 too,
>because BSD likes having that math processor. And as a firewall you need
>space for 2 NIC's right? IIRC the LC's are a small machine.
>
>Tim
>
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