An installation guide for the Amiga is available at http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~amigo/inst.html. It is also available in various formats from ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/pub/amiga/linux/local/docs/. Although the guide was written for the Amiga, many things are also useful for Atari users.
An Atari-specific install guide can be found at http://www.gti.net/azog/linux68k.html; another one can be found at http://zippy.spods.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/~tomlin/flinux.html.
More recent guides can be found at http://www.feist.com/~rjflory/wat-inst.html (for the Amiga, by Ron Flory) and http://www.dadacomm.com/linux-m68k/howto.html (for Ataris).
A fairly up-to-date list is kept on the information page at the Linux/m68k Home Pages.
Further documents can be found at the Linux Documentation Project's Home Page. These documents were originally written for Linux/i386, but many are useful for Linux/m68k users too (e.g. HOWTOs on UUCP, PPP and the general Linux FAQ).
A FAQ on Motorola chips (including the 680x0 microprocessors) is available at http://www.oise.on.ca/~rboys/m68kfaq.html.
Last but not least: Look into the Documentation directory of the 2.x kernel trees.
The group comp.os.linux.m68k is intended to further interest in, and development of, the port of the Linux operating system to the 680x0 architecture. All discussion in the newsgroup should be in English. The group's RFD (Request for Discussion), CFVs (Calls for Votes) and final vote tally, along with the group charter, can be found at http://www.hensa.ac.uk/ftp/mirrors/uunet/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp/comp.os.linux.m68k.
This group is on Linux kernel development only. From time to time it contains messages dealing with the Linux/m68k kernel.
This group announces new Linux-related products. Announcements for new versions of Linux/m68k may be found there.
This group deals with Linux/m68k only. The languages currently used
are German and English. This newsgroup is also available via FidoNet
(as LINUX-68K.GER).
This group is for discussions on Amiga Unix, Minix, NetBSD and Linux/m68k on the Amiga.
Similar to comp.unix.amiga, but in German.
There is one mailing list for Linux/m68k, which is named linux-m68k. As there is now a newsgroup for Linux/m68k, topics on this list should be restricted to development issues if possible.
(written by Benjamin Lorenz)
You can subscribe to linux-m68k@phil.uni-sb.de by sending a mail to majordomo@phil.uni-sb.de, with a random subject and a single line in the mail body containing ``subscribe linux-m68k''. You may want to subscribe to linux-m68k-digest@phil.uni-sb.de instead: in this case, you will receive one mail per day containing all mails to the list from the last 24 hours. If you prefer to read mail in this way, please unsubscribe from linux-m68k to reduce net load!
You can download archives from the digest mails! They are stored at ftp://ftp.phil.uni-sb.de/pub/linux-m68k/mailinglist.
Another mailing list archive that supports searching can be found at http://aire.ncl.ac.uk/Atari/Mailing-Lists/Linux-m68k-phil-List.index.html.
The kernel list is also available from sunsite.auc.dk as a nntp
news feed (nntp://sunsite.auc.dk/sunsite.linux.m68k). It
is the fifth or so member on the mailing list so it's fast.
Other mailing lists are available for more specialized purposes; I recommend visiting the Linux/m68k Home Pages for further details.
The following addresses are known to offer FTP via e-mail:
To get more info on FTP-mail send a mail with subject ``help'' to one of the addresses mentioned above.
If you have a modem, you can get Linux/m68k from the following location in Germany:
System name: nasim
Phone: +49 89 5469593, ZyX19200
Login: Anon-uucp: nuucp - no password / ZModem: gast - no password
Contents: full 680x0-tree of tsx-11 in /pub/linux-68k
Get first: index file /pub/linux-68k/ls-lR.nasim.linux-68k.gz
Other features: provides uucp access to 680X0 channel (read only) and
the linux.act.* news-groups
Admin: Frank Bartels <knarf@nasim.cube.net>
There are no distributions available via FTP at the moment. ALD, the Autoren Linux68K Distribution for the Atari, is available from Whiteline (anyone got any information on its current status?)
Also, you can help beta-test Debian/m68k 2.0. See wip for details.
An IRC channel for Linux/m68k exists, called #Linux68k. Start irc
and select one of the servers of LinuxNET, such as
irc.blackdown.org. A list of servers can be found at
http://www.blackdown.org/LinuxNET/LinuxNET.html. Just do a
/join #Linux68k
and look out for others. If nobody is there, there is a simple reason for this: you are the first to join this channel (actually, the first one to join a channel creates this channel). There already is a well-established #Linux.
Note: The attempt to establish a channel #Linux68k via the ``regular'' IRC servers more or less failed because of many, many net splits. LinuxNET is much more reliable.
Linux Journal (ISSN 1075-3583) is the monthly magazine of the Linux community. It is aimed at everyone from the casual user to die-hard kernel hacker. In the US, most large booksellers carry the magazine.
Linux Gazette is a monthly on-line publication with tricks and tips from ordinary users, along with longer how-to articles. You can read it on the World Wide Web at the location above; issues are also available as Debian packages.
There are a gazillion Linux books on the market these days. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with the books publised by SSC and O'Reilly: they are two ``class acts'' in the Unix community. The flip side of this is that Linux/m68k users should be wary of books from PC-oriented publishers.
A few particular selections (all of which are on my bookshelf or desk):
Running Linux (2nd Edition) by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman (O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-151-8; $29.95 US) is probably the definitive book for new Linux users. It includes extensive coverage of virtually every topic under the sun, including installation, Unix commands, Emacs, an introduction to LaTeX, X11, networking (including SLIP, PPP and Ethernet), and much more. And the book's getting even better. Andy Oram, an editor at O'Reilly, says: ``Lar Kaufman is very interested in ports, and particularly considers the m68k port to be significant. I don't know how much we can put in about installation and m68k particulars, but certainly the [next edition of the] book will talk about the port.'' (I must confess that I don't have the 2nd edition yet, so my statement above isn't completely true :-)
Matt's earlier book Linux Installation and Getting Started (LDP and SSC; ISBN 1-57831-001-6; $20.00 US) is also good, and has the advantage of being free (if you get it from the LDP), which helps if you're a starving college student like me; on the downside it covers a lot less material than Running Linux does. The current edition from SSC includes a CD-ROM with Debian 1.2 for Intel.
The Linux Network Administrator's Guide by Olaf Kirch (LDP, O'Reilly and SSC; O'Reilly ISBN 1-56592-087-2, $24.95 US; SSC ISBN 0-916151-75-1, $18.95 US) is a good companion to Running Linux. The title is something of a misnomer, as it is handy even for single-user workstations connected by Ethernet or a serial link. (The O'Reilly edition is more professionally presented than the SSC edition, which is why the prices differ.)
Inside Linux by Randolph Bentson (SSC; ISBN 0-916151-89-1; $22.00 US) is aimed at the Linux user who wants to know more about the history of Linux and the internals of Unix in general.
The Linux Sampler (SSC; ISBN 0-916151-74-3; $14.95 US) is a selection of articles from the early issues of Linux Journal, including many of historical interest (nothing really about our port though).
The Linux Bible (Yggdrasil; ISBN 1-883601-20-7; $39.95 US) is big. It includes hard copy of Linux Installation and Getting Started, The Linux Network Administrator's Guide, other LDP manuals and a selection of HOWTO's. An accompanying CD-ROM contains all these documents and more. A very cost-effective way to get started with Linux. (Again, I've got an older edition; the most recent is the 4th.)
Linux in a Nutshell by Jessica Perry Hekman (O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-167-4;
$19.95 US) is a desktop handbook that contains a brief
reference to virtually every Linux command, as well as sections on the
bash and tcsh shells and regular expressions.
Additional recommendations (particularly in foreign languages) are welcome!
Prices are the U.S. list [not discounted] price for the book, obtained from my personal copies or (in cases where the price wasn't printed on the cover) http://www.amazon.com/.
Note that some of these books may appear at first glance to be very Intel-centric, but most topics are platform-independent (other than XFree configuration and some aspects of the initial installation; for those parts refer to a Linux/m68k-specific FAQ or HOWTO).
One source for ordering these books over the Internet is Amazon Books (http://www.amazon.com/); another is Barnes and Noble Online (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/). I haven't used either of them myself, but they do have a good reputation and they do give a discount. You can also find a bunch of these at your local category-killer bookstore (Barnes and Noble, Borders, Books-A-Million, etc.).
Disclaimer: I wrote an article of SSC's Linux Journal and was paid for it. SSC's books are mentioned here because they are good books, not because SSC paid me to say that. 'Nuff said.