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.

@jmac "McLinux" = sounds not just cheap and trashy, but like a lazy attempt to make a name that sounds cheap and trashy

"M K Linux" = evokes CIA experiments with psychedelic drugs