Linux on an old Macintosh?

[Gerald Combs]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, georgebingham at swbell.net wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
>    Does anyone know of anyone running Linux on an old Mororola 68040
> variant of Macintosh hardware ? I forget the model name of the mac I have,
> but it had the Motorola 68040 cpu in it.

You should be able to run Linux/mac68k or NetBSD on it, depending on the
actual model.  You can check the machine status pages at

    http://maclinuxstatus.sourceforge.net/status/  and

    http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/machine-status/

to see if your model is supported.  The projects themselves can be found
at

    http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/  and

    http://www.netbsd.org/

respectively.

>    I wouldn't mind finding a use for that machine that's currently
> gathering dust in my basement...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George
> 
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