Subject: Re: FYI -- Linux for PowerMac (fwd)
To: Ken Nakata <kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu, kenn@romulus.rutgers.edu>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@romulus.rutgers.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/11/1996 22:41:49
> If getting there "first" wasn't important, Intel wouldn't control the
> PC motherboard market.
Intel wasn't the first to manufacture PC motherboards. Microsoft
wasn't the first to offer GUI for the mass market, either. What's
your point?
> That's strange. When I code something, if the original sucks, I toss it.
That's my impression as well. But that's what they say, and I can't
change what they say. Whay are you whinning without even knowing
what Apple and OSF say? It's all on the net.
> They still get the jump on us. Anyway, does this mean that there is
> no central Linux kernel source base? That Linus doesn't hold the
> ultimate control anymore?
This means there is NO Linux KERNEL on MK/Linux for PowerMacs.
Theoretically, there is NO Linux in the kernel itself. The kernel is
a PowerMac port of the OSF Mach microkernel. So, I don't think Linus
will have any control whatsoever on a kernel which isn't derived from
his own work. Well, he shouldn't, should he?
Also, We should be able to recompile and run Lites(*) on top of the
OSF kernel immediately after it becomes available (well, theoretically
again) and forget about the Linux server forever if you like.
*: Lites is a UN*X server based on 4.4BSD Lite, running on top of Mach
MK
ken