From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Linux on Macintoshes? (STOP ALREADY!) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 12:56:27 GMT
In article <C5vrG9.G4C@cs.vu.nl> rmast@cs.vu.nl (Mast RN) writes:
>
>By the way, my opinion about Linux on a Mac is that If it is allowed then
>It would be a help to the development of 68000-linux, also for the Amiga,
>because more programmers would program for it.
It's most certainly "allowed" - I'd be very unhappy if some macintosh
user who wants to try to port linux to the mac would desist only due to
the FSF mac standpoint. I personally like macs (not that I'd want to
have one at home, but...), and find this discussion ridiculous. Yes, I
know the FSF aren't officially supporting mac development of GNU tools,
but as far as I'm concerned, anybody is free to try to port linux to the
mac and I'll try to answer questions etc with no regard for the "evil
Apple empire". Can we please stop bickering about it? This thread is
almost as boring as the GPL/386BSD one.
Also note that if somebody actually succeeds in porting linux to the
mac, and does a good enough job of it (and it won't be easy, I'm sure),
most GNU software should work out of the box quite as they work on the
386 version, so a mac-linux would have all the software the current
linux has (with the exception of X11r5 - that might be problematic).
Linus