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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:49:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To:        FREEBSD-CHAT-L <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Here comes the next wave to UNIX-wannabes...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960208114534.20349M-100000@zip.io.org>

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"Apple and Open Software Foundation Announce Linux for Power Macintosh"

"Apple Computer is supporting a project with the Open Software
Foundation (OSF) to port Linux, a freely distributed version of UNIX,
to a variety of Power Macintosh products. This version of Linux
operates on the OSF Mach microkernel which will be running natively on
the PowerPC microprocessor."

    And to top it all off:

Q: Why did Apple port Linux vs NetBSD, BSD 4.4 or some other UNIX?

A: There is an enormous amount of support for Linux on the internet
and Apple felt that porting Linux was the best way to address the
needs of the higher ed and scientific communities.

    ... and the snowball keeps getting bigger and bigger.  God, that's
depressing.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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