unix on amiga
There are 3 choices for Unix on the Amiga: 1) Commodore's, which hasn't been
updated in awhile and DOES NOT RUN on a 68040 (actually, I was a bit amazed to
see from someone else's message that it was still avail from CEI – it's been
hard to find for eons), 2) Linux, still in an early-mid beta testing stage,
available on the internet (sorry, I don't have a site handy), and 3) NetBSD,
also available on the internet. The latter is currently in version 1.0 Beta
and in a pretty mature testing stage. I've got it on my Amiga 2000 with a GVP
Combo 40 board and a Retina Z2 display board. It requires an accelerator with
a MMU (memory management unit) so a 68030EC based board won't work. It's
working well for me, it's FREE, and the NetBSD project has versions for
architectures from Amiga, Mac, i386, to Suns and HPs (etc). X11 release 5 and
6 are available (not all board drivers for rel 6 yet). X11 drivers for Amiga
built-in graphics chips and for Retina board (works great!).
Available from internet set ftp.uni-regensburg.de and some mirrors. Also on
the Meeting Pearls' CD-ROMs (obviously with a little time delay).
Hope this helps. Mike