[plug] Linux m68k

[Brad Campbell]

G'day All..
Just an update for anyone who may be remotely interested..
I grabbed a secondhand Mac Centris 650 for less than I was quoted
for 4 suitable 4mb 30Pin Simms..
The Centris is a 68040, as opposed to the 68030 in the IIsi and LCII,
running at 25 Mhz..(Gonna try and OC it to 40).
The whole point of that explanation was to illustrate how much faster
it is than an LCII or LCIII.
Successfully installed Debian 2.1-m68k onto it, and updated the kernel
to 2.2.10, using a pre-compiled kernel from the mac-m68k site..
Whoohoo.. a whole 16 BogoMIPS.
It took nearly as long to decompress the install files, as it did to 
download them..
It's SLOW..
Ethernet maxes out at about 350kb/s and when I get hdparm installed
I'll benchmark the SCSI, but it's only SCSI One, so I'm pretty sure
it's slow..

But what the hey.. I have Linux installed and running on a MAC..
and it's running the distributed net client, at 20KKeys/Sec..
as opposed to my K6-II-360 at 600KKeys/Sec..

So don't let this discourage you, all you need is a 68k mac, with
FPU (Important!!) and MMU (More Important).
So a 68020 and PMMU and FPU OR
68030 and FPU
or 68040, but not a 68LC040 (No FPU).
A couple of hundred meg SCSI Drive of any type, and preferably more
than 4 meg of ram, tho it will run in 4 meg I'm told.. (I have 16).
Can't wait to try a kernel compile :p)

Brad..