m68k (aka 680x0, m68000, 68k)
Processor compatibility
The m68k architecture was developed by Motorola 1979-1994; it includes machines as famous as the Commodore Amiga, the Atari ST, the NeXTStation, and the SGI IRIS.
Downloads
- Boot media allow you to boot from, e.g., an USB stick or CD and install Gentoo using a Stage.
- A Stage (previously called Stage 3) is a minimal set of Gentoo binaries to build a system in any way possible.
- Containers and Images provide a ready-to-use Gentoo system, e.g. for cloud or virtual machine usage.
- All release files are signed with an official OpenPGP key and distributed via world-wide download mirrors.
Stages
Default stage archives
Stages (advanced)
musl stage archives
For additional information on using musl based Gentoo systems, please see the musl usage guide. Note that users of musl stages will need to be comfortable filing bug reports and sometimes providing patches.
32bit-aligned stage archives
These stages enforce 32bit alignment of data types via hard-enablind the -malign-int command line switch
in gcc. While still experimental, the result is more future proof than old-style m68k builds.
You can not switch -malign-int arbitrarily on or off; it changes the ABI of all binaries and
requires a full offline re-installation of the system.
The switch to time64 is included here for convenience too.
Additional links
Download directory (contents, hashes, and signatures)
While our main distribution site https://distfiles.gentoo.org/ is already backed by a CDN, your download speeds may still vary depending on your location. We encourage you to select mirror sites close to you.
All official Gentoo releases are accompanied by an OpenPGP signature. The corresponding keys as well as instructions on how to verify the signatures can be found on the release media signature page.