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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Peak, and I do mean this, UX design*.
Inside 10 seconds on the site, I knew everything I needed to know. What was the site about. Why was I there. Where could I find what.
I did not need to scroll for 2 minutes to read five sentences of text that are 100 % marketing BS with zero information.
Just great!

*On a desktop, and not checking accessibility.

Mar 21 at 10:04pmWeb