jmacMar 20

I just stumbled upon a wonderful archaeo-website, mostly frozen in 1999, and personally meaningful: https://www.mklinux.org

This is the homepage of MkLinux, the long-defunct but historically important effort to port Linux onto PowerPC Macs. A pre-Jobs Apple co-funded this open-source project as an experimental step towards what would eventually become Mac OS X.

It was my first Linux. And I remember in a flash how people would pronounce it "McLinux”, and how I hated that so much, arggh.

Welcome to MkLinux.org

This is the official site for MkLinux, a port of Linux to the Power Macintosh, running Linux 2.0.xx on the OSF Mach 3 MicroKernel. This was originally a project by Apple Computer, Inc. and the Open Software Foundation.

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Is “pre-Jobs" the right word for the bleak dozen years for Apple between Jobs's departure and return? “Inter-Jobs”?
Mar 20 at 1:12pmWeb
Show threadjim nelsonMar 20

@jmac To me, there's no such thing as a pre-Jobs Apple. It's like saying "pre-Jesus Christianity."

I would call those bleak years between his tenures "The Great Interregnum."

Show threadDraken BlackKnightMar 21
@_jimnelson_ @jmac
I have my own opinions about crApple. On the one hand, their security IS top notch but you have to manually enable it for it to be effective (e.g. Lockdown Mode, Advanced Data Protection). On the other, I wouldn't exactly call them "private." Just ask @ashleygjovik for details if she's allowed to give them out.
Show threadBrooke Vibber Mar 21
@jmac "the interregnum"