On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:17:21AM -0300, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > And it makes sense: as Mach under a monolithic kernel is only bloat, and as > most of the services in Mac OS X are provided by the Cocoa (OpenStep, > Objective C) layer, it pays to use a simpler, leaner, faster kernel (BSD) > instead of the more full-featured, user-friendly GNU/Linux. OSX does not use the BSD kernel. it uses some of the freebsd userland (after apple broke it and fubared it) > MkLinux continues strictly voluntary without Apple support, but I can't make > any sense of it. If one wants Mach for its flexibility, the way is a > multiserver architecture like GNU/Hurd's; if one wants Linux for its > performance, Mach is only a hindrance. the only reason mklinux gets any attention is to support nubus hardware. if the mainline kernel support nubus gets decent enough i would fully expect mklinux to finally die. > Perhaps your best bet would be NetBSD, have you already checked? While I am > much enamored of Debian GNU/Linux, the NetBSD folks have a more mature OS in a > far more mature port to PowerPC and a more pragmatic attitude that may help in > the short run. i disagree about the maturety part. GNU/Linux has FAR better hardware support then the bsds. sorry. i tried booting netbsd not long ago on this blue g3, it committed sukupu (sp) the moment it saw my adaptec scsi card. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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