From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 8 08:49:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA00263 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:49:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from zip.io.org (root@zip.io.org [198.133.36.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00258 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:49:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from taob@localhost) by zip.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA11636; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:49:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:49:16 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-CHAT-L Subject: Here comes the next wave to UNIX-wannabes... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk "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"