Commodore's Amiga Unix (Amix), a 1991 Unix workstation operating system that has largely faded from memory, has received a significant modern update announced at a conference in Finland. The update makes the software functional on newer hardware and adds contemporary development tools, breathing new life into this historically significant but niche system that once attempted to position the Amiga as a high-end workstation alongside home computing.

The new release, developed by three Finnish enthusiasts and available via AmigaUX.org, includes kernel modifications to support 68040 and 68060 processors (the original only worked with 68030-specific instructions), a new package manager called apkg that can download software over the internet, and an updated bootloader. The original Amix 2.1 was released by Commodore in 1992 for the Amiga 3000UX, a £4,998 machine that could only display X11 in black and white without an additional £998 graphics card. The developers made heavy use of artificial intelligence in the reverse engineering process, whilst the article notes that NetBSD remains a more modern alternative for those seeking contemporary Unix functionality on original Amiga hardware.