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Hello Everyone! |
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This is to let everyone on these list know about my progress |
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concerning Gentoo/m68k. I have been working for the past month on the |
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port and have made signifigant progress. Portage is working, and a |
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Stage1 has been built. However, I was overzealous with my CFLAGS and |
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added -O3, which made my Stage1 chroot do odd things. |
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Then, I decided to rebuild the entire system, but Debian's gcc |
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package broke, which had me cursing for about 2 weeks. I had glibc |
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builds failing left and right. (Well, actually, only one failed every |
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day, since I'm on a 33MHz machine. :) |
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Anyhow, that's all fixed now, and I hope to have an official stage1 |
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tarball ready soon. What this e-mail is for is to hopefully gather |
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interest in the port so that the powers that be may make it an |
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official Gentoo architecture. I realize that m68k is 10-years old, |
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but it still has several uses, and Gentoo can fulfil those uses quite |
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nicely. I have two Sun 3/80s that serve as DNS for me, and a Performa |
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550 as a NTP server, A Quadra 660AV for video, etc. As the Monty |
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Python line goes, "They're Not Dead Yet!" |
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With Gentoo, we'll be able to squeeze every last bit of performance |
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out of these old beasts, as well as trim down the distribution to a |
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minimum, lending itself to netbooding and embedded work. m68k |
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hardware covers a vast landscape, including but not limited to |
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Macintosh, NeXT, Sun3, HP300, Amiga, and Atari. These machines were |
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high-end at the time, and can still be put to good use. |
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Thanks for reading, and if you're interested in the work I've done, |
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please reply, so I can know that what I've done is worth releasing, |
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and the fine folks at Gentoo can know that m68k is a platform worth |
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supporting. |
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Zach Lowry || Murfreesboro, TN || www.zachlowry.net |
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Linux / *BSD / Irix / Solaris / Apple / Unix Network Administration |
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Registered Linux User #264589 |
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14 Different NetBSD-Supported Machines |
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