Linux Kernel 6.0 Released for the AmigaOne X1000/X5000 PowerPC-Based AmigaOS Computers

Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a very substantial and comprehensive update of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for AmigaOS 4.1 54.16.

Also Linux: Kernel 6.0 for AmigaOne X1000/X5000 has been released and the biggest Amiga event of the year will be held upcoming weekend in Mönchengladbach, Germany: the Amiga37 event.

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[drinkypoo]

You could conceivably get compiling rust working on AmigaOS [github.com].

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[drinkypoo]

I applaud projects like AROS for trying to keep the ideals of the OS alive, but these special computers are just toys. I have nothing against people having toys, only expecting them to be something else.

Last time I had a weird old computer I set up cross-compiling distcc for it, and it was a great decision.

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[DrXym]

Rust has support for PowerPC. No reason it couldn't be used providing there were volunteers to maintain it.

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[account_deleted]

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[CaptQuark]

The link to the Amiga 37 event in the summary is wrong: https://amigaevent.de/WB.html [amigaevent.de]

The page looks like a working copy of the Amiga Workbench and opening select documents reveals the list of exhibitors, guests, sponsors, etc. An interesting and nostalgic page for the event.

Amiga will never die.

[xack]

I never used an Amiga (only had a Commodore 64), but I appreciate the effort to keep it alive, along with efforts to keep RiscOS, BeOS, IRIX and other operating systems and computers that fell to the Windows and Mac duopoly. There's always value in alternative computing methods, even if most people prefer the convenience of monopoly.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'm pretty sure the only resemblance these bear to the original Amiga is the name.

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[pereOlthwaite]

The great thing about the Amiga operating system, the thing about the Commodore paradigm which the rentseeker coalition really hated, was that the end user was empowered to pretty much ignore it. A computer whose notion of usability involved allowing a person to use their computer, with a Hardware Technical Reference Manual alongside to help them along. This couldn't be allowed to continue. You can't have such as the music industry, spending multimillions turning old castles into vast recording studio comp

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[spaceman375]

You sound bitter. Chill out and contemplate the beauty of a board with all sorts of pin-outs thinking it's a Commodore 64 [raspberrypi.com]

But Linux doesn't have X feature /s

[terrorubic]

AnonymousCoward [slashdot.org]: "But will 6.1 have rust support for amiga? Of course not, rust doesn't support amiga. A real win to put rust in the kernel, eh"

I was waiting for the first "Linux doesn't have X feature" post /s

PowerPC?

[Amiga Trombone]

That sounds like a subject for "Whatever Happened To...?" all by itself.

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[drinkypoo]

amd64 happened to PowerPC, just like it happened to everything else. IBM is still keeping POWER going, but PowerPC has been relegated to embedded.

meh

[Osgeld]

the entire point of owning an amiga is to use workbench and exploit the nifty tricks of its unique hardware.

Linux on a power pc whatever is just linux on a power pc whatever

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[drinkypoo]

By modern standards the classic workbench is terrible. At the time it was amazing to be able to pull screens up and down and have workbench in the background while playing a game and have everything work (and usually work smoothly!) but none of that is impressive today. Most of us in fact ignored the workbench and used DirOpus or similar to control our Amigas because it was so much faster, functional, and efficient as an interface.

kas1e

[kas1e]

@All Just in case anyone interested how this X1000 and its "nemo" motherboard looks like for real, there is some video about https://youtu.be/n4aNw5-5S24 [youtu.be] There I tried to cover all the stuff: history, the board itself, assemblyng it into the unusual case, making a serial adapter for debugging, installing AmigaOS4FE+updates, stress testing on RadeonHD with many apps running at the same time, etc, etc. All with a lot of subtitles, covering the booting process, some basics of OS4 and co. Video din't cover Lin