(08-08-2017, 05:18 PM)1Byte Wrote:

• Get *nix running on my mac68k
  

That's pretty cool. I recently got my old Sun workstation up and running with OpenBSD, but that's pretty much plug and play, sparc64 is so well supported. mac68k is another story entirely. I'm pretty sure you're stuck with NetBSD. But "stuck" is a strong word, the most recent release of NetBSD is available for mac68k and they even build packages for it!

But I am skeptical. NetBSD is notorious (in the OpenBSD community anyway haha) for not building packages actually on the real machines, they cross-compile. I seem to recall one time none of their vax images actually worked but no-one noticed because they had never been tested by anyone at NetBSD, whereas OpenBSD actually uses VAXen to compile the vax packages, so you know it boots and can run a wide range of compilers, build tools etc.

My point is that you may face some difficulties getting any software to actually work on your mac68k. Good luck, I hope your road is easy and trouble-free. Most of all, I hope all of your hardware still works!

If you have any trouble, let me direct you to NetBSD's mac68k mailing list: http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/mac68k/. But I don't use NetBSD and I don't own any working mac68k hardware (I wish), so I can't offer any specific help.

In fact, you may already know all of this, since the first search results for mac68k are the {Net,Open}BSD pages. We (nixers.net community) would greatly appreciate any updates on your experience if you do eventually get it working. Lots of us get really excited at old hardware :)