A fairly up-to-date list of installation guides is kept on the distributions page at the Linux/m68k Home Pages; see also Distributions in this FAQ.
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@lists.linux-m68k.org by sending a mail to linux-m68k-request@lists.linux-m68k.org, 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@lists.linux-m68k.org 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 of 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 (could?) 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>
ALD, the Autoren Linux68K Distribution for the Atari, is available from Whiteline (anyone got any information on its current status?)
You can use Debian/m68k 2.0 [hamm] (and, after
March 2, Debian/m68k 2.1 [slink]), and help develop
future versions (like potato; Debian releases have names
based on the names of characters in Pixar's film "Toy Story").
Debian is available via FTP at
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/; installation guides are available
for
Amigas,
Ataris
and
Macs.
Debian is also available on CD-ROMs from several
vendors including
Linux Systems Labs and
Chris Lawrence.
You can also use and help improve Jes Sørensen's unofficial Red Hat port, available at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/projects/680x0/redhat/. Ron Flory has written an installation guide for this port; you can get it at http://www.feist.com/~rjflory/linux/rh/rh-inst.html. Red Hat Software is distributing this unofficial port (along with Red Hat ports for PowerPC, UltraSPARC and MIPS) as part of its Linux Rough Cuts package; you can also obtain it from Holger Lubitz.
Lastly, Eagle Linux is a distribution available for the Amiga, based on the Debian 2.0 project. You can read more about it at Eagle's web site, http://www.eagle-cp.com/.
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.
Try the new books page at the Linux/m68k Home Pages for an expanded selection of books (from the selection that appeared here before).