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Amiga Unix, Again

Amiga Unix — 68040 · 68060

Year of the Amiga Unix Desktop 2026

Amiga Unix, again

Amiga Unix — Amix — was Commodore's System V Release 4 for the Amiga: shipped in 1990–92 for the A2500UX and A3000UX, then left where it stood. amigaux.org is an unofficial community project that picks it up again: Amix on 68040 and 68060 machines and on today's accelerator hardware, with a modern toolchain, a package manager, and drivers for cards that never had any. The work is done in the open, and written down as it happens in the grimoire.

Soon: install it yourself

The install medium boots from floppy and CD-ROM on real hardware — floppy image and ISO under emulation — and takes care of the whole installation, interactively or unattended. With supported hardware, getting Amix onto a machine comes down to following the prompts. The classic tape install follows later.

From there the network takes over: apkg installs packages straight from pkg.amigaux.org — grep, gzip, less, patch and zlib to start with, and more GNU and BSD tools as they are built and tested.

# apkg update catalog updated: 39 packages # apkg install less downloading extra/less-704.pkg ... installed less-704

Installing on a real 68060. Keymap, disk, partition sizes, package set — then it shows you what it is about to do. Real time, with the long waits taken out.
First boot. It names itself, sets the clock, writes its hosts file — including the package repository — and comes up at a login prompt.

Where we are

Working today

In progress

Next

How it's built

Part of this work is done with generative AI in the loop — models reading the old kernels in binary, as no source is available, and writing drivers and notes — with people setting direction, reviewing every change and testing on real hardware, where it either boots or it doesn't. Other parts are done the classic way. The grimoire records both, confidence-tagged, so you can see what is verified and what is still a guess.

The code

The kernel

Drivers and hardware

Graphics and X11

Built on

Tools and docs