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MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150
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Cameron Kaiser’s articles are always a right treat, and this one’s no different.
It’s about running MkLinux on the Apple Workgroup Server, the regular Mac rebadged into a server product and predecessor to Apple’s first real server product, the Apple Network Server running AIX.
The Workgroup Servers were originally marketed with Apple’s UNIX variant, A/UX, but with this operating system not surviving the transition to PowerPC processors, Apple started offering other options.
A/UX ultimately didn’t survive the 1994 68K transition to PowerPC, but in 1996 Apple publicly offered another option: run Linux, using the Mach microkernel.
↫ Cameron KaiserI never really stopped to think that MkLinux really was, but it’s a lot more interesting than just an early Linux port to PowerPC Macs.