In the latest PowerPC news it is reported that OSF is porting Linux to the Mac with the support of Apple. Apple has a web site - www.mklinux.apple.com that discusses this and has a link to the OSF site. In my book, this is a GoodThing(tm). Of course, being a huge fan of both the Mac and unix might put me in the minority ;-)
They aren't *really* porting Linux to powermac. They're throwing a little bit of paint on OSF/1 and hiding some stuff in libc.
Looks to me like they are basicly trying to ca$h in on the Linux name and reputation without contributing anything to the cause. *Sigh*
OSF ported Linux to our microkernel which is derived from Mach 3.0 from CMU. And we have ported our kernel and the Linux server to
Mach != Linux. When people use use this thing, they will *not* be using Linux in any way shape of form. The drivers and such that you develop will be completely worthless to Linux proper without someone spending months to port them, and advances in Linux such as the new page cache or the upcoming revision of ext2fs may not show themselves on your "linux" for an equal period of time. This comes back to my belief that you folks are just trying to cash in on Linux's name and reputation without contributing something directly to the cause. Why didn;t you just call it it "OSF/1 for PowerMac" and include an ext2fs server? Hindsight? Why don't you just port Linux proper to PowerMac? (and how did this get on cypherpunks?) Christopher