🚀 go-pugleaf

Da ich vor einiger Zeit das "Ger�cht" gestreut hatte dass LINUX fuer 
den PowerMac portiert wird, hier das Orginalposting zum Thema.


Regarding a post in comp.sys.mac.system... perhaps you would post this 
there...
  our news server is broken for outgoing news presently... regards...



Citation:    Computergram International, May 31, 1994
             pCGI05310008

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Title:       Two computer science students converting freeware
             Unix for the Power Macintosh. (freeware Linux)

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Reference #: A16055658

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Full Text COPYRIGHT Apt Data Services (UK) 1994
            TWO COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS CONVERTING
                FREEWARE UNIX FOR THE POWER MACINTOSH

Two computer science students at Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Maine are converting the free Linux Unix clone for the Power
Macintosh. Linux is a Posix-type Unix, originally written for
80386 and 80486-based personal computers by Finnish programmer
Linus Torvalds with the assistance of a loosely-knit team working
across the Internet. It is freely distributable under the same
terms as the GNU Unix. Charlton Wilbur and Jem Lewis began laying
plans to develop a freeware Unix on the Power Macintosh system in
January and say that they hope to have a stable kernel running on
the Power Mac by the end of August, together with the basic Unix
utilities - cd, ls, cp, mv, gcc, emacs, vi, and bash. Until then,
they want to keep the project tightly controlled, but once it is
running relatively bug-free, they say that it will be freely
available for alpha testing and for others to help develop device
drivers and so forth. The new version of Linux for PowerPC cannot
hope to offer binary compatibility with iAPX-86 Linux, but the
pair say that they are striving to maintain source code
compatibility between the two versions, so that a small amount of
source tweaking and a re-compile is all that is necessary to run
existing Linux applications. They say that they are currently
beginning to do some of the kernel design and coding, and are
beginning to convert gcc. In a posting to comp.linux.announce
they said that they would appreciate not being innundated with
electronic mail requests at the moment.

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