Re: Amelio's ouster

[amitai.schlair@usa.net (Amitai Schlair)]

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

> >Since when are Macs stuck in one OS? We can run a Mac form of Linux
> >(don't know the name) as well as a somewhat old port of Unix, AU/X
> >(although I don't know if it works on PPC processor),
> 
>     That Unix port has to run inside a GUI window, and that is running on
> top of MacOS.

You're referring to MachTen, which is a nifty product, but limited in
its UNIX-ness and prohibitively expensive (for me anyway). Actually,
there are pure Unices for most 68K and PPC Macs. For the 68K group (most
68030's and some 68040's, support improving) there are NetBSD, OpenBSD,
and MacLinux (which is extremely rough now). For PPCs there are MkLinux
and Linux/PPC. All of these run on the bare Mac hardware, though most
(all?) use a MacOS application or extension to boot. And they're free.

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Amitai Schlair
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