[UFO Chicago] debian woody on an imac rev. b -- success! (fwd)

[Ian Bicking]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 22:49, Lukas Eklund wrote:
> Also, Apple themselves stared development of Linux for the Mac with
> MkLinux. It was transitioned to an community project several years
> back and is still being worked on lightly. It was built on top of the
> Mach microkernel and is an ancestor of the Mac OS X.

More of a cousin, I'd think, since NeXT ran BSD on Mach (which MkLinux
was modeled on), and Mac OS X is BSD just like NeXT.  MkLinux seemed
like an aborted experiment in changing kernels.

Still confuses the hell out of me why they'd use Mach.  Feels like a bad
hack from long ago, in an effort to catch buzzwords of the day... now
it's obsolete and an overhead that adds no advantages.  Well, unless you
took MkLinux and Darwin to utilize an up-to-date foundation for a kernel
switch -- kind of use Mach as an abstraction layer that could support
multiple kernels.  Still doesn't seem worth it...

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