:MkLinux announces PowerMac & Performa 5200/5300/6200/6300 support
MkLinux announces PowerMac & Performa 5200/5300/6200/6300 support Aug 4, 2000, 22 :23 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (6461 reads) (Other stories by David A. Gatwood)
For many years, Linux has existed on the Apple PowerMac family of
computers. Linux/PPC kernels were available for PCI PowerMacs.
MkLinux kernels were available for 6100, 7100, and 8100 machines
and NuBus PowerBooks. But one very popular family of Mac was left
out in the cold.... Until now.
At the stroke of midnight Pacific time, The MkLinxu Project announced
support for the Power Macintosh 5200, 5300, 6200, and 6300 family of
personal computers. This marks the first time that any free-standing
OS other than MacOS has been available for these machines.
The "Performa family", as many of these machines are also known, was
primarily targeted towards home users at a relatively low price point.
"We estimate that there are thousands of these things out there, mostly
sitting in closets and basements. They're just too slow to run current
versions of MacOS," said David Gatwood, Development Coordinator for
the MkLinux Project.
Bleeding edge test kernels are now available from the MkLinux ftp site,
along with some information about the kernel porting effort. As with
any good Linux project, the Performa kernels are 100% free and open
source.
For more information, please visit the MkLinux web site at
