On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Michael Casadevall wrote: > I suspose the question needs to be asked; what are people doing with > their old m68ks.
Just want to answer this one, despite not using debian, hope it's ok. I've been running linux on my old A1200/Blizz1230III more or less non-stop since early 1997, and before that there was a period of NetBSD as well. This machine is currently my web-server (http://amiga.nvg.org), hosts a few mirrors (of www.linux-m68k.org amongst others), hosts the Warlock ADF archive, and also used to run the UAE Board (which I btw should put online again). It does all this quite well, I think. Every night I get logs from apache in my mail, yesterday it had close to 3000 hits from well over 500 unique adresses :) A couple of years ago I bought a Blizzard 1260 for a second system, the old 030 with only 32MB RAM was tedious to build my gentoo/m68k packages on and I felt the need for speed ;) Last year I got an old Mac Quadra 610 up and running, and also bought an Asus Pundit P2 with a 2,13GHz core2duo to run emulators on. This one is now running Aranym where I do all my current package building. (Same box also runs a few Qemus for mipsel and armeb.) The old mac is my IRC server... all my machines each have a bot (SupyBot) installed and logs onto this IRC server (ngircd+stunnel for IPv6&SSL-reachability). Here they output tails of auth.log, emerge.log, messages and various other logs, and accept various commands from me and themselves. (For example they tell each other about ssh-scan attempts and block offending IP-addresses by adding them to /etc/hosts.deny) All machines also have a hobbit-monitor client installed for survialance, as well as a munin-client.sh that I use to collect statistics. They all have native IPv6 addresses, and have been "test beds" for various IPv6 related stuff and debugging :) So, my m68k related work these days involves updating packages every now and then with Aranym, test that they also work on my a1200-Blizz1260 system, and if it alls seems ok, also install them on my Q610 and a1200-Blizz1230. All binary packages are available directly on http://gentoo-m68k.kolla.no/ and sync'ed up to http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/m68k/ I really should create a ram disk to install from and some stage files I guess, every now and then I get mail about this from people who want to try it out. -- kolla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
