Amiga Linux (1993)
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·July 5, 2025null
bni
This link quite capture the internet 1993 vs 2023
TheAmazingRace
It really did.
1993: Respectable, academic in nature, genuinely helpful.
2023: Random garbage, musings about the prices of cryptocurrency, more garbage.
encom
There was garbage on the internet in the 90's. Lots. I was there, and I occasionally made the pile bigger. But I think 2025 garbage is of a different nature (and magnitude). 90's garbage was low effort and low quality. Think Geocities and pointless Usenet arguments. 2025 garbage is malicious, exploitative, industrial brain rot. And it will only get worse.
KingOfCoders
(Never did run Linux on my A4000/40/Retina, got a PC for that)
I remember the early 90s when there wasn't DNS working at our university for everything and we exchanged IP addresses of FTP servers like the one from the thread:
ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de 137.226.112.172 /pub/LinuxeMPee584
ah the memories (studying engineering in Aachen two decades ago), that was the B subnet my dorm was on..
teo_zero
I have memories of running BSD on my Amiga 1200. The 680ec30 had no MMU, so the kernel had to relocate all executables before running. Nothing more than a prompt, but what an achievement!
2809
I used to run Debian Hamm on a 040. Worked a treat.
snvzz
Linux was big back then.
Nowadays, you'd have a better experience on Netbsd, which still has developers who care about its Amiga support.
PCMCIA network cards work (whereas Linux got rid of PCMCIA entirely) and so does X11 (currently dead on Linux).
Running Netbsd current on my A1200 with 030@50, 128MB RAM.
bestouff
I remember running Linux on it A4000 shortly after that. What a pain, but also what a reward that was !
d--b
I ran a Linux distro on my Amiga 1200 in 1997 or something like that. It was really slow, but it worked. It took me something like 48hours to compile the Enlightenment desktop manager
I'm noticing a decent spike in Amiga content on Hacker News. I hope this trend continues!